It was a bit of a trick kwiz because a and b were the correct answers. For you see, Mencken’s barber took that picture of him. And by the haircut, you can see that Mencken had ample reason to hate the barber.
H. L., the famous misanthrope, hated for good reason: a. his barber. b. the guy he’s looking at in the picture above. c. everybody with the possible exception of a cabdriver he once encountered in Washington D.C. d. the upper crust, the lower crust, and all the crusts in between. e. being interrupted when he […]
Though she did give out salmon jerky on one memorable Halloween, Marie’s strangest behavior took place every summer during the decade of the 1890s when she spent 8 to 10 weeks roaming the Canadian Rockies in the company of three surly grizzly bear brothers. Any questions put to her later about those times were answered […]
A Canuck through and through, Marie: a. often tended goal for her hometown’s hockey team. b. roamed the wilderness every summer with her posse of grizzly bears. c. was the toughest lumberjack in all the western provinces. d. went into a feeding frenzy whenever she heard The Maple Leaf Rag. e. gave out salmon jerky […]
Believe it or not, he did conspire with a cobbler to make those silly shoes.
Eugen Sandow, the world’s greatest muscle man, kept Flo Ziegfield waiting to sign him up for the show biz while he: a. consumed his weight in paper clips. b. worked with his cobbler on the plans for those horrible shoes. c. failed utterly to tear himself away from the mirror. d. quaffed a few with […]
Noel finally perfected her intergalactic robot hen and sent it off into space on her 90th birthday.
Noel Neill won the part of Lois Lane after several years of: a. living in an igloo. b. herding cattle. c. trying to build an intergalactic robot hen. d. writing failed screenplays about her pet iguana. e. hang gliding in New Zealand.
Rinty did in fact excel as a veterinary surgeon specializing in parakeets. He only directed one movie. He couldn’t get along with the suits. He did fly in for one all night session with FDR to outline campaign strategy. He merely suggested a few Hardy Boys plots, all of which were later used in the […]
After retiring from acting, Rin Tin Tin had quite a long career as: a. a veterinary surgeon. b. an adviser to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. c. one of the writers of The Hardy Boys series. d. a certified public accountant. e. a second unit director for Warner Brothers Pictures. f. a kitten impersonator.
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