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    Default Groucho

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    As you know the Marx Brothers

    were Jewish. Groucho had children with a Gentile, including a daughter who he took to a social gathering at a

    country club to which he had been invited.

    The club had a swimming pool, and the daughter wanted to go swimming

    but was disallowed because of the club rules forbidding Jews in the pool.

    Groucho asked for the manager, who

    still refused. He then asked, "well can she go in up to her waist since she's only half Jewish?".

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    He was great. When I was very young

    he had a weekly TV show called "you bet your life" or something like that. He used to wing it every week, ad

    libbing the audience into stitches. My dad would never miss that show. The old movies are priceless of course.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce View Post
    He was great.

    When I was very young he had a weekly TV show called "you bet your life"...

    Don't forget the duck with

    the secret word.
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    Here's one from You bet your

    Life.

    Groucho: How many kids do you have?
    Man: 13
    Groucho: 13!!
    Man: Well, I love my wife.
    Groucho: I love

    my cigar too, but I take it out every once in a while.

    He got into some trouble over that one.

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    Ya know, I heard that story back

    (with the opposite gender being interviewed), and I always wondered if it really happened or not. Where to look

    when you get that wonderment? Snopes.com of course.

    More than you really want to know here, but interesting none

    the less:
    http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/grouchocigar.asp
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    This Groucho legend got me thinking

    about something that happened in Chicago on live TV while I was in high school ('64-'68). I didn't actually

    witness it, but I can be 99% sure it really happened, because on that particular day, the entire school was

    buzzing with the news. Countless students came to school with first hand accounts. Everybody and I mean

    *everybody* was talking about it. EVEN my best buddy's MOM discribed in detail what happened. So, I am convinced

    this happened without a shadow of a doubt and I can tell you that the isolated region it happened was in fact

    Chicago. Yet... have a look at the Snopes.com review. They are

    unconvinced:
    http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/bozo.asp

    The way I remember it being told (over and

    over and over by nearly everyone I ran into for several days doing the school year) was:
    Playing that throw the

    ball in buckets game.
    BUT when the kid missed the bucket he just say something like "shit".
    THEN Bozo said

    something like "we don't talk like that..." blah blah blah, the kid said the imortal words "Cram it... " (I

    remember it "Cram it Boz") Just Boz, not Bozo.

    So there you have it. Snopes doesn't know everything.
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    I remember hearing about that

    in California. Exactly the same story. I weas in elementary school at the time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruce View Post
    Ya know, I

    heard that story back (with the opposite gender being interviewed), and I always wondered if it really happened or

    not. Where to look when you get that wonderment? Snopes.com of course.

    More than you really want to know here,

    but interesting none the less:
    http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/grouchocigar.asp
    But Bruce,

    this story's been told so many times it HAS to be true!! At least I assumed it was, dumb me for not

    checking the facts.

    I remind myself of the media, repeat something often enough and people start to believe it.

    "Don't worry about the facts folks, we'll tell you what we think you should know.

    The story about the daughter

    and the pool I heard in an interview of a Groucho biographer. God I hope its true...
    Last edited by idesign; 08-17-2007 at 09:51 PM.

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