In this photo, the deadpan pop singer of the 1940s has just remembered that she left: a. the light on in her garage. b. her heart in San Francisco. c. damning evidence. d. her suitcase on top of a cactus in the Mojave Desert. e. without tipping the Stab Master.
Klatu did it 208 million years ago by delicately shouldering Earth into its present orbit.
Leap Day was founded by: a. Geraldine Leap, an insufferable egotist and drapery consultant. b. Count Fortunato Beetle, 18th century simp. c. Klatu, the alien overlord, Barada of Nikto. d. looking under some rocks. e. an anonymous gunnery sergeant in the Royal Navy serving under and sometimes beside Horatio Nelson when acting as second arm. […]
Chester Conklin was a Norwegian fish captain. Later, he was promoted to fish admiral. On a side note, yes, he kept snacks in his mustache.
Chester Conklin wasn’t really this tiny, but he was: a. ticklish. b. a renowned connoisseur of soup. c. engaged for a short time to the Lady Known as Lou. d. the first choice to play Rhett Butler, but had a conflicting obligation. e. a Norwegian fish captain.
He never got over being forced to quit school and go to work in that blacking factory as a kid. Whenever he so much as glimpsed a tin of shoe polish, he would fly into a spittle flecked rage. His handlers would have to talk him down with praise of random characters from his works, […]
Dickens’ favorite activity when visiting the United States was: a. riding shotgun on a Wells Fargo stagecoach. b. swimming in the Hudson River with porpoises. c. laughing at Chicago. d. dressing up as Queen Victoria and skipping down the street reciting randomly from Shakespeare. e. arm wrestling circus clowns. f. raging over shoe polish.
‘b’ is true. The Pittsburgh Pirates of the early 1950s, much like the Pirates of today, were not a pretty sight. Gloria at second base certainly would have helped to remedy that situation. ‘d’ is a definite maybe. I mean, look. ‘a’, ‘c’, and ‘e’ are probably false, though all the research has not been […]
Gloria Grahame: a. was the unacknowledged great granddaughter of Hans Christian Andersen. b. could have, if she felt like it, played second base for the Pittsburgh Pirates. c. wrote three unpublished novels about string. d. could kill with her laser death stare. e. dumped a vat of tar on Shirley Jones.
The correct answer is ‘all of the above’. Yes, the diminutive Russian minx was a woman of many talents. In the photo, she is of course instructing Lon Jr in the brow furrow technique he used with so much success throughout his career. On a side note, Maria once accidentally spilled a cup of tea […]
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