Rod Serling: a. tooled around L.A. on a skateboard. b. had to be in some way somehow related to Sandy Koufax. I mean, come on. c. could bowl (as in cricket) with either hand. d. could float in the air, but chose not to. e. once made Walt Disney cry .
She could bend steel with her bare hands, so yes, the answer is ‘b’.
Lillian Gish was a really, really, really good actress because: a. she could juggle while standing on her head. b. in real life she was a burly steelworker named Joe Kovacs. c. she was born in 1603 and brought more than 300 years of life experience with her when she went into the movie biz. […]
Yes, our boy Jim accidentally invented the polka when he was inadvertently goosed by the scullery maid with a broomstick.
James K. Polk was our best president because: a. he invented the polka. b. his mother said so. c. he was an early advocate of gremlin power. d. deer loved him. He was deerly beloved. e. he made an ardent, though unsuccessful, attempt to ban the harmonica.
He actually used more than 200 aliases when toiling in various Southern California oil fields. He tried to patent a supposed elixir of eternal life he discovered in his oil experiment mania phase. In fact, he’s still alive and working in oil somewhere in Alaska.
Whenever Charlie Chaplin traveled incognito to work on oil derricks in the desert, he went by the name of: a. B. Tipton Stallworthy b. Alice Roosevelt c. Rollo Face d. Pheasant Ramone e. Just Plain Ken f. Minnesota Flynn g. Chirp Halfbrain h. Stanislaus Krafchow i. Frodo j. Bob Smith k. all of the above […]
When marrying for the sixth time, grain elevator consultant Trembling Al Novotny opted to wear: a. nothing. b. a strategically placed harmonica. c. a chocolate hat. d. Martian antlers. Answer: b and c. He wore ‘d’ to get his driver’s license renewed. He wore ‘a’ only when knitting.
Canada’s Gladys Smith, later known as America’s Sweetheart, Mary Pickford, in fact did every single one of those things and more. Why, she swam the English Channel to celebrate her third birthday. She balanced on one foot on the back of a buffalo and rode it in that manner from Pasadena to Santa Monica. She […]
Mary Pickford: a. once bested Fatty Arbuckle in an acorn eating contest. b. twice put dead moths in D. W. Griffith’s porridge. c. was a lumberjack before getting into pictures. d. secretly scaled Mt. Everest in 1908. e. had a wolverine farm in the San Fernando valley. f. always kept a portrait of Martin Van […]
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