Tag: Gene Wilder

Work Work Work

“Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.” Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” American actor, director, and screenwriter, Gene Wilder, was born on this day in 1933 (died 2016). Maybe I’ve overdone it on the butterscotch ripple. You’d think that by …

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It wasn’t supposed to happen this way…

“Man,” I cried, “how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom.” – Victor Frankenstein English author and playwright, Mary Shelley, was born on this day in 1797 (died 1851). I confess, I’ve never read Frankenstein. But I think we all know that the story is generally a story of “I didn’t mean for it …

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