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Graham Mason was a notorious drunk. At the height of his consumption he managed to down two bottles of vodka every day and once went more than a week without food.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Mason often had horrible hangovers. Indeed, on one cold day he was heard to complain about the noise made by falling snow... as it landed on his bald head |
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Senator Joseph McCarthy stalked out of a congressional committee room in a rage, to be met by a bevy of reporters who asked him to comment upon a shocking allegation that had just been made. "Why, it's the most unheard-of thing I've ever heard of," McCarthy exploded.
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Musically Challenged
Lew Brown was once summoned into the office of a musically challenged producer who proceeded to instruct him on the fine art of songwriting. When Brown pointedly observed that he had written some fifteen Broadway shows, the producer declared that his notions about composing were simply wrong. "How do you know I'm wrong!" he cried. "Because you're standing in front of this desk," the producer replied, "and I'm sitting behind it." |
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Einstein's Homework
Albert Einstein spent his last two decades trying to reconcile quantum physics with relativity. His holy grail - a so-called "Unified Field Theory" - eluded him. He once casually mentioned to a colleague that he was on the verge of his "greatest discovery ever," before admitting that "it didn't pan out" just two weeks later. One day in his twilight years, he received a letter from a 15-year-old girl asking for help with a homework assignment. She soon received a curious reply: a page full of unintelligible diagrams, along with an attempt at consolation: "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics," Einstein told her. "I can assure you that mine are much greater!" Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (Physics, 1921) [noted for his revolutionary special (1905) and general (1915) theories of relativity, which revolutionized human understanding of the nature of space and time and formed the theoretical basis for the exploitation of atomic energy; and for his various autobiographical and other works] |
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Neeleman Solution
JetBlue founder David Neeleman was once asked what one thing might save the rest of American business. His reply? "Furry slippers. When I talk with customers, they ask me, 'How do you find such nice people to take reservations?' I tell them, 'Furry slippers. They love their jobs because they're in their furry slippers, working from home.'" |
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At the tender age of three, Peter Falk had his right eye surgically removed (and replaced with a glass one) when a malignancy was found. His glass eye did not prevent him from participating in team sports like baseball and basketball at school. In fact, despite his disability he excelled at both games and the eye became the source of much amusement.
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On September 6, 1901, while greeting people at an official reception at Buffalo, William McKinley was shot at point-blank range by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz. McKinley slumped in a chair, his first thoughts for the safety of his assailant, who was being tackled by people nearby, and his second thoughts for his wife, Ida, a semi-invalid who suffered from seizures. "My wife," he gasped, "be careful how you tell her." He was taken to a hospital where he lingered for a few days. His wife was at his bedside as his end approached. "I want to go too, I want to go too," she sobbed. "We are all going," said McKinley faintly. He did not speak again.
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Professional Humorist
Following one of George Ade's legendary after-dinner speeches, a noted lawyer rose and sardonically asked: "Doesn't it strike the company as a little odd that a professional humorist should be funny?" Ade, noting that the man's hands were buried deeply in his trouser pockets, replied: "Doesn't it strike the company as a little odd that a lawyer should have his hands in his own pockets!?" |
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Technically Stupid?
In 1898, young Albert Einstein applied for admission to the Munich Technical Institute - and was turned down. The reason? The young man, the Institute declared, "showed no promise" as a student. By 1905, he had formulated his special theory of relativity. [Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read.] |
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Jimmy Kimmel: Moving to Vegas
During an appearance on "The Tony Danza Show," Jimmy Kimmel, who grew up in Brooklyn, explained why his family had moved to Las Vegas when he was nine years old. "My dad had asthma," he said, "and he loved hookers." Some time later, Kimmel was asked if this remark about his father was true. His reply? "He doesn't really have asthma." |
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