My wife is Polish on both sides. Her last name ends in “iak”, which is one of the variations that means “son of” or “little”.
The Michelson’s behind Snopes used to be active on the alt.folklore.urban (afu) newsgroup in the 1990s. They were pretty good but were blind to some things. They never would accept that the Zha Zha Gabor - Johnny Carson story was true. I had the feeling that they wouldn’t even believe it if they were in the studio audience that night.
I must admit that I didn’t see it. I was taking a shower when it happened. My parents were watching Johnny Carson as they usually did. I started up the stairs and there was my younger brother cracking up. He had been in the living room and heard it happen. The next day, it was the talk of the school among the high school kids who saw it on the school bus (40 minutes each way gave plenty of time to discuss about anything) and in school.
I don’t remember if it was the Michelson’s or someone else who suggested that it was all just a big prank played on me by my younger brother and the kids at school and it didn’t happen.
Also, Zha Zha filed a lawsuit against Johnny Carson. I remember reading in the Amarillo paper in June that the lawsuit had been dismissed. Of course, the articles did not provide the full account, but everyone knew the reason for the lawsuit. There was also, about that time, an article in Time magazine in which they delicately just referred to the antics of having Zha Zha Gabor and Johnny Carson on the same show.
The afu faq also claimed that no small, single engine aircraft were being produced in the US any more because of liability issues. I pointed out that that was blatant nonsense and gave examples, but they refused to change the faq until a certain pilot on the newsgroup agreed with me.
So while Snopes is interesting, I don’t take anything it says as the last word on anything.
Thanks. I didn’t notice it was from The Repository Of Lost Legends. In 1910, Burroughs was a poor pencil-sharpener wholesaler - he wasn’t buying land in California
Intelligence is apparently relative. Einstein’s brain weighed less than the average brain.
You mean like a flex-a-tone ?
I gotta know-did they succeed?
Yeah. It was just a straightforward name change.
I have often wonder what I would change my name to if I bothered to change it.
What would have been Comedy Gold was if each sister changed her name to that of one of her sisters!
“OK, Mom. You still have 4 daughters and they are still named Ginger, Veronica, Mary-Ann and Betty. Just not in the order you did it in.”
Who the Hell Are You Now? - Coming this Fall on CBS.
They could do a Brady Bunch style credits sequence with lines connecting each.
I have a really old layman medical book. And I couldn’t believe this when I read.
Doctors apparently counseled their depressed patients to drink alcohol.
I am against any alcohol prohibition. And I think alcohol sometimes needlessly gets a bad rap. But even I have to admit. That’s a bad idea no matter how you look at it.
A variation has been making the rounds, implying that she’s either dying or dead. Same CBD BS.
Did some looking around and it’s almost exactly the same copy that targeted Whoopi towards the end of last year.
Heck, they prescribed everything from cocaine to heroin for depression before some people noted that these substances are not particularly harmless.
I swear that every book published before WWII had a scene in which somebody faints or gets knocked out or even shot and the response is to give them brandy.
Every Western movie before 1970 had one of those brandy scenes. Shot wound, arrow wound, hypothermia, doesn’t matter, give 'em brandy. Heck, even Tippi Hedren was treated with brandy by Rod Taylor after almost having been eaten alive by seagulls in The Birds.
Thanks, but no. A lot of them are percussion instruments, though.
I finally found it. At 2:52 the gremlin gets hit in the head with a beer bottle. That sound. How do they make it?
Well, if your only two choices are hurt or hurt and drunk, which would you choose?
While I’m sure that’s how his family spelled it, it wouldn’t be “pure Polish” per se, as Polish does not have a “v.”
When Teddy Roosevelt was a boy, he suffered from bad asthma. One prescribed treatment for an asthma attack was to give him a cigar to smoke.
Nitpick: Zsa Zsa, not Zha Zha.