Jeanette is sad because: a. they ran out of sausage. b. she doesn’t know if she’ll be able to endure one more take listening to Maurice Chevalier’s over-the-top faking of his French accent. c. Rome fell. d. King Kong didn’t return her phone calls. e. F. Scott Fitzgerald stole her favorite dress.
The correct answer is 2. For, you see, Ann was soon to appear as a mermaid in a flick, and she had been spending an inordinate amount of time cavorting with a coven of mermaids off Catalina Island in preparation for the role. In fact, she so enjoyed her mermaid antics that she later willed […]
What was Ann Blyth thinking at that very moment? 1. “I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.” 2. “Soon I’ll be a mermaid.” 3. “What a stone cold loser you are.” 4. “I’ve scraped better company off the bottom of my shoe.” 5. “I wonder what you’d look like hanging from a gibbet.”
The giveaway clue was his hair. Yes, Georges could make gravity obey his slightest whim. His more burly whim was somewhat jealous of this situation, I can tell you.
The genius French Oulipian novelist Georges Perec: a. bathed for inspiration in a bathtub filled with toads. b. was able to bend gravity to his will, thereby walking up walls or across ceilings upside down whenever he felt like it. c. married twice for love, once for monetary gain, and once for a tractor. d. […]
The Reverend Charlie did in fact sail on a raft to Egypt with a madman. That madman was the painter, James McNeill Whistler. There were a few tense moments passing by Gibraltar, I can tell you.
The Reverend Charlie sailed: 1. on Moonlight Bay. 2. on the good ship Lollipop. 3. on the Nautilus with Captain Nemo. 4. on a raft to Egypt with a yodeling madman. 5. on gossamer wings he made while his class took the logic test.
One smart camper knew the correct answer. Yes, L. Frank Baum sent every word he wrote about Oz to Enrico Caruso for approval before daring to deliver a completed manuscript to his publisher, The Reilly & Lee Company of Chicago.
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