Adding to our (Murkins) confusion, the UK Mars Bar was never been the same critter as the USA Mars Bar. And now the US Mars Bar has been renamed “Snickers with Almonds.” I think.
A hot woman, who happens to be completely uninterested in having sex with me, which places her in the vast majority of women.
I am primarily straight, but good God, one must have his standards.
FTR, it’s Liz. I may admit to some SOME open-mindedness, but Liz at 19? Are you, or is anybody, that queer? :eek:
The fake story is that Eddie Haskell grew up to become a member of the LAPD and was shot and wounded. Oh yeah that was true.
The subject of the thread is “Legendary, apocryphal or just plain untrue stories of celebrities.” I am not attesting to the story’s veracity.
Howard Hawks and John Wayne made Rio Bravo in 1959, El Dorado in 1966, and Rio Lobo in 1970. All three movies had essentially the same plot: a lawman and the town drunk defending the sheriff’s office from a siege by a group of outlaws.
When the similarities were pointed out, John Wayne supposedly replied, “Next time, I’ll play the drunk.”
Victor Mature applied to join a country club. The club did not admit actors. He said, “I am not an actor, and I have 64 movies to prove it!”
David Geffen fell in love with a very young Keanu Reeves sometime around the making of My Own Private Idaho and the two got married.
Oh, and Barbara Streisand made a porno.
That’s why we at Coca-Cola have just released our new product, “Diet Coke with Semen.”
I thought it was a Champaign bottle.
I think this is true. Read it in a Playboy article. Really.
I’ve seen band members repeat that one with a straight face during interviews, though they thought it was inexplicable why it would have worked.
Then we have some more modern legends. Several of my students have told me that Beyonce and Jay Z are high-level members of the Illuminati (along with the Obamas, naturally), and the triangle hand symbol is their recruiting tool. Of course, Katie Perry is ALSO Illuminati, as well as being a surviving and brainwashed Jon Benet Ramsey, or clone, or something.
Frank Zappa once won a “gross-out contest” by eating shit on stage. (False, of course.)
Unlikely in the UK in the 1960s.
I think I heard that one as early as 1969. (No, I didn’t take it seriously.)
Two other Oldie But Falsies about Leave It To Beaver were:
- Tony Dow was the one who did porno films
- Jerry Mathers was killed in action in Vietnam.
The Alice Cooper rumor I heard when I was a kid was that he gave an empty cup to the someone in the first row at one of his concerts, they passed it around and all spit in it, gave it back to him and he drank it.
Michael Jordan & Eddie Murphy and the “hit the floor” elevator story? Also Tommy Hilfiger and the story he went on Oprah’s show that he said he didn’t want black and Asian people wearing his clothes? Or are those not old enough? I think I heard both in high school.
Fred Rogers was a sniper in Vietnam w/ numerous confirmed kills. I actually heard this one in the .mil, and it never made any sense to me. The whole “don’t let the glasses (sweater) fool ya” thing goin’ on though, it was amusing I suppose.
That’s about as true as the long-standing rumor that Gloria Vanderbilt is a satanist.
A couple I heard more than once, back in the day:
Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of Rush “discovered” Neil Peart working in a car wash, where he happened to mention to them he was a drummer.
AC/DC hired Brian Johnson after one of the Young brothers overheard him singing along with an AC/DC song on the radio while performing his day job as a roofer.
In reality, both guys auditioned for the bands like anybody else would do. Peart showed up as one of a string of drummers trying out for the band; Brian Johnson was invited to audition because the guys in AC/DC had heard him singing with his own band and thought he’d be a good fit. I suspect that both rumors started out as simple wish-fulfillment. “It could happen to me!”
That the piano part on Taking’ Care of Business by Bachman-Turner Overdrive was played by a pizza deliveryman who just happened to come into the studio and asked the band if he could play. In reality, the part was played by Norman Durkee, a professional musician who was recording commercials in the next studio. Durkee was asked to play by BTO’s sound engineer. With only a couple of minutes between commercials, Durkee scribbled some chords down on a pizza box and recorded the piano part in one take, never having heard the song beforehand.
There has been an agenda of sorts to exonerate Arbuckle. I don’t believe we will ever know the truth of the matter, and there was probably never enough evidence to convict him. But I take everything I read on the Arbuckle case with a pinch of salt - both the original muckraking newspaper accounts and the more recent attempts to exonerate him.