Felix Baumgartner

My daughter, Acacia, sent me an email in respect of yesterday’s pics: “Enjoyed your amazing pictures on Bytes. I do feel the need to point out that the picture of Felix Baumgartner jumping from space is an artist impression. He hasn’t actually completed the jump yet.” 

I could have responded like a Jewish parent: “You write only to tell me that I am wrong? Maybe once in a while you could write and say something nice.” But I won’t. 

Instead I will agree with her and correct the error. 

Felix Baumgartner is a 43 year old Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper who has claimed all sorts of records and world firsts for jumping off high buildings and other structures. He has already jumped from 30,000 metres (18.5 miles) from a helium filled balloon, using a parachute and sponsored by Red Bull (“gives you wings”). In so doing he was in freefall for nearly 4 minutes and reached a speed of 862 km/h (536 mph). 

His new aim is to go supersonic, again with sponsor Red Bull, by jumping from 37,000 metres (23 miles) from a capsule suspended from a helium filled balloon. He will have a pressurised suit and a parachute and wants to be the first parachutist to break the sound barrier. Originally scheduled for 8 October 2012, gusty winds meant it has been postponed to 9 October. TODAY!!!

Felix plans to jump from the edge of the earth's atmosphere today

 Austrian Felix Baumgartner, pictured at a news conference in New York, will leap from an aircraft 23 miles above New Mexico, in an attempt to jump higher and faster in a free fall than anyone ever before

At such high altitude, Fearless Felix will be able to see the curvature of the Earth 

In his test jump in March, Felix plunged 25,000 feet. In today's jump he will attempt to jump higher and faster in a free fall than anyone ever before

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Leo's 2012 Pics, Part 3:

Although Readers’ Week has concluded, the following final part of Leo’s pics brings that item to a close as well: 

Colliding rivers in Geneva, Switzerland:

The stunning green vine snake

Aurora australis (southern lights) from space

Mount Kilimanjaro from above

The amazing strength of an ant

Yarn bombing a bus in Mexico City

Felix Baumgartner jumps from 71,580 feet

An incredible aurora.

The Waterfall Island at Iguazu Falls

Overgrown railroad tracks in the forest

A pod of sleeping sperm whales

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Pulitzer Prize for Photography, 1952

Continuing a look at the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Photography (started in 1942) and the World Press Photograph of the Year (started in 1955). 

Sometimes the photographs are spectacular, sometimes the circumstances in which the photographs were taken are significant and sometimes the photographs are ar reflection of a moment or period of historical significance. 

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Year: 

1952 

Award: 
Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Photographer: 
John Robinson and Don Ultrang 

Photograph: 
A series of 6 photographs taken during the Drake University – Oklahoma A & M game of player Johnny Bright’s jaw being deliberately broken. 

Comments:

At first look the 6 photographs referred to above appear unremarkable, sports photographs of an incident (generally referred to as “The Johnny Bright incident”) in which a player’s jaw was broken during an American football game. By today’s photographic techniques and technology they are ordinary, probably making you wonder (as did I, on first viewing) why they were considered worthy of a Pulitzer. 

Knowing the background and circumstances of the photographs will revise that opinion. It is my belief that the award was not only for the photographs as photographs but also for the circumstances in which they were taken and for the willingness of the photographers (and others) to make an issue of the incident. 

You see, Johnny Bright was black. 

Pre-civil rights America was quite different from America today. Anyone who has seen movies such as The Help, The Long Walk Home and Remember the Titans will have an inkling of attitudes and injustices in the US in 1951. 

Playing college football for Drake University, a small college playing in the top college division, Bright was a prominent and remarkable athlete. A halfback/quarterback, he was a candidate for ability awards, led the nation in total defense and was a key factor in Drake’s 5 game winning streak going into the Oklahoma game It was the first time that an African American athlete with a national profile had played against Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University) on their home field. The coming game, and Bright’s participation, were controversial even before the game began. Bright received threats before the game but played anyway. 

During the first seven minutes of the game, Bright was knocked unconscious three times by blows from Oklahoma A&M defensive tackle Wilbanks Smith, a white player. 

Still in the first quarter, Bright passed the ball to fullback Gene Macomber. Well after having passed the ball and behind the play, Wilbanks Smith attacked Bright striking him to the face with his forearm, his elbow breaking Bright’s jaw. 

Bright stayed in the game, despite his shattered jaw, and completed a 61 yard pass to Drake halfback Jim Pilkington a few plays later but soon afterward his injury and another hit upon him finally forced him to leave the game. Bright finished the game with less than 100 yards, the first time in his three year collegiate career at Drake. Oklahoma A&M eventually won the game 27–14. 

Bright’s jaw had to be wired and a tooth had to be extracted so that he could drink through a straw. 

Bob Spiegel, a reporter with the Des Moines Register, interviewed several spectators after the game, eventually publishing a report on the incident in the October 30, 1951 issue of the newspaper. According to Spiegel's report, several of the Oklahoma A&M students he interviewed overheard an Oklahoma A&M coach repeatedly say "Get that nigger" whenever the A&M practice squad ran Drake plays against the Oklahoma A&M starting defense, prior to the October 20 game. 

Spiegel also recounted the experiences of a businessman and his wife who were seated behind a group of Oklahoma A&M practice squad players. At the beginning of the game, one of the players turned around said, "We're gonna get that nigger." After the first blow to Bright was delivered by Smith, the same player again turned around and told the businessman, "See that knot on my jaw? That same guy [Smith] gave me that the very same way in practice." 

Dan Ultang and John Robinson were photographers assigned to cover the game by the Des Moines Register, Ultang using a still camera and Robinson a sequence camera. They were there because of the threats that had been made and because of rumours that Bright would receive special attention. Their photographs clearly show that the attack upon Bright happened well after he had passed the ball and behind the play. The photographs were published the next day on the front page of the Des Moine Register. In a 1999 interview for an oral history project conducted by the University of Iowa journalism school, Ultang said his photograph of the play was identical to the final shot of Robinson’s sequence. Robinson died in 1972 

Ultang and Robinson subsequently shared the 1952 Pulitzer. 

J.B. Whitworth, the A&M coach, initially denied there had been any illegality, claiming that Bright’s injury had come in the course of normal play. Faced with the photographic evidence to the contrary, which was also published in Life magazine, Whitworth declared that he was ashamed at what had happened, despite rumours that Whitworth had ordered his players to attack Bright. 

The aftermath: 

Drake University and fellow Bradley University withdrew in protest for several years because of the Bright incident and because there was no disciplinary action taken against Wilbanks Smith. 

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New rules were introduced requiring facemasks and requiring any player throwing punches in a game to be ejected. 

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Bright recovered to play one more game that season. He moved to Canada, thinking he’d get better treatment playing in the Canadian Football League and went on to become the greatest running back in CFL history — 10,909 yards rushing, three Grey Cup titles, a Most Outstanding Player award, the single-season rushing record, and a still-standing record for most consecutive games played. CFL players didn’t make enough money to make ends meet, so he got a side job as a teacher. When his football career ended, he became a junior high principal in Edmonton, coaching the neighborhood high school to provincial championships on the side. He died of a heart attack in 1983. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame the next year. 

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Recalling the incident without apparent bitterness in a 1980 Des Moines Register interview three years before his death, Bright commented: "There's no way it couldn't have been racially motivated." Bright went on to add: "What I like about the whole deal now, and what I'm smug enough to say, is that getting a broken jaw has somehow made college athletics better. It made the NCAA take a hard look and clean up some things that were bad." 

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When asked about Smith, whom he had not seen since the incident, Bright said he felt "null and void" about Smith, but added: "The thing has been a great influence on my life. My total philosophy of life now is that, whatever a person's bias and limitation, they deserve respect. Everyone's entitled to their own beliefs." 

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A webpage for Smith's hometown of Mangum, Oklahoma lists him as a "noted notable", praising Smith as "an outstanding football player and wrestler," while noting that "In football, he earned notoriety as the perpetrator of the 'Johnny Bright Incident.' The city's webpage goes on to claim that Smith's "actions were, presumably, directed by the coaching staff, but Wilbanks Smith courageously accepted full responsibility. After graduation, he embarked upon a successful career in engineering and community service." 

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When the Des Moines Register published its photos of the attack back in 1951, sports editor Sec Taylor wrote an angry column saying Smith’s jersey should be retired, fumigated, and displayed somewhere as a symbol of “things college football does not stand for.” But nowhere in the piece did Taylor mention Wilbanks Smith by name. He simply referred to him by his jersey number. In the caption under a photo of Smith, all the paper said was “Number 72.” “I won’t sully our clean journal by the use of his name,” Taylor wrote. 

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On September 28, 2005, Oklahoma State University formally apologised to Drake University and to Bright for the incident in a letter from Oklahoma State University President David J Schmidly to Drake President David Maxwell. 

The apology came twenty-two years after Bright's death.

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Uncle Bob and Aunt Fanny

  

Working at my computer with the TV on in the background, I heard the woman in one of those interminable infomercials spruiking about the benefits of a steam mop. She finished by saying how quickly everything could be sent and that “Bob’s your uncle.” That started me wondering as to how an expression meaning “There you have it” or “You’re all set” would originate with a reference to someone named Bob. 

My reading on the topic revealed the following the following. . . 

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The expression is mainly confined to British and Commonwealth countries. This means that although the phrase is commonplace in the vocabulary of Poms and Aussies, the Seppos have less familiarity with it. 

Further, there are some linguistic difficulties between English English and American English that touch upon the expression, more of that later. 

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The origin of the expression is unknown, although various possibilities have been advanced.

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The first theory is based on the Victorian Prime Minister, Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, having appointed his unpopular nephew, Arthur Balfour, to a succession of posts. 

Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 

Arthur Balfour 

The most controversial of such appointments was in 1887 when Balfour became chief secretary of Ireland, notwithstanding that he was seemed unsuited to the position. The Dictionary of National Biography says: “The country saw with something like stupefaction the appointment of the young dilettante to what was at the moment perhaps the most important, certainly the most anxious office in the administration”. This gave rise, so the explanation goes, to the common feeling in England that having Bob as your uncle would grants success. (Funnily enough the word nepotism derives from the Italian word for nephew. This was because Italian popes gave preferential treatment to “nephews”, a euphemism for their bastard sons). 

Surprisingly Balfour didn’t do too badly at the job, earning the nickname Bloody Balfour from the Irish. He also became Prime Minister from 1902–5). 

The problem with accepting this etymology for the expression “Bob’s your uncle” is that the phrase isn’t recorded until 1937, in Eric Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Although Partridge suggested that it had been in use since the 1890s, there has been no earlier use of it in print. 

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Another theory is that the phrase refers to Lord Frederick Roberts (1832–1914), 1st Earl Roberts. 

Lord Frederick Roberts 

Roberts was an Anglo-Irish soldier, born in India, who fought and commanded in India, Abyssinia, Afghanistan and South Africa. One of the most successful commanders of the 19th century and cited for numerous acts of gallantry, he is also renowned for ending of the siege of Kandahar in 1878. Having marched a force of 10,000 men more than 300 miles from Kabul, he won a battle, and ended the siege. 

Roberts was highly regarded by his men and was affectionately referred to them as 'Uncle Bobs'. It is said that the phrase "Bob's your uncle" was originally used by Roberts's men to increase confidence among the ranks and imply that all would be well. 

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The third explanation is also the most probable. Dating from the 17th century, having been recorded in Captain Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue of 1785, the phrase “all is bob” meant that everything was safe, pleasant or satisfactory. The theory holds that this evolved into ”Bob’s your uncle”. 

Capt Francis Grose 

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The 2009 Jim Carey pic A Christmas Carol contains the lines “Bob’s your uncle, Fanny’s your aunt!” 

Likewise the 2003 flick Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, has Captain Jack Sparrow saying “Robert’s your uncle, Fanny’s your aunt.” 

How did the reference to “Fanny’s your aunt” get added and what is its meaning? 

The amplified expression is less well known but not so rare as to be uncommon. 

Its origin is even more confused. 

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As a starting point, note that the word “fanny” has a different meaning in the US compared to England and Australia. 

In the US the word means a woman’s buttocks, in England and Oz it has always meant vagina, although the US meaning is starting to become used. 

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The term “My Aunt Fanny!” has always been an exclamation equivalent to “Bullshit!” 

That is my acquaintance with it and it is so recorded in the online Urban Dictionary: 

A way of politely calling bullshit when someone tries to give you an unbelievable excuse, line, lie, or over exaggeration. The dog ate your homework? My Aunt Fanny! 

There would appear to be an inconsistency in the expression “Bob’s your uncle and Fanny’s your aunt” if the above two meanings are applied, the first phrase meaning everything is fine, settled; the second that it is unbelievable, untrue. 

One possibility is that it evolved from the spoken expression “Bob’s your uncle”, meaning everything is done, set, being met by the response “My Aunt fanny!”, meaning “Not so!” 

At any rate, there are no explanations I have been able to find as to Aunt Fanny having been conjoined to Uncle Bob. 

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As to the origin of "Sweet Fanny Adams", see: 

http://bytesdaily.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/origin-sweet-fanny-adams.html 

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Funny Friday

Readers' Week continued:

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From Byter Leo:

After receiving numerous customer complaints about their employees’ "plumber crack", a German plumbing firm bought their plumbers a new t-shirt designed to make their employees more attractive to the customers. . . 

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From Byter Rosie:

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From Byter X, who asked to remain anonymous:


I have a little Garmin
It sits there in my car
A Garmin is a driver's friend
It tells you where you are

I have a little Garmin
I've had it all my life
It's better than the normal ones
My Garmin is my wife

It gives me full instructions
Especially how to drive
"It's thirty miles an hour", it says
"You're doing thirty five"

It tells me when to stop and start
And when to use the brake
And tells me that it's never ever
Safe to overtake.

It tells me when a light is red
And when it goes to green
It seems to know instinctively
Just when to intervene.

It lists the vehicles just in front
And all those to the rear
And taking this into account
It specifies my gear.

I'm sure no other driver
Has so helpful a device
For when we leave and lock the car
It still gives its advice.

It fills me up with counselling
Each journey's pretty fraught
So why don't I exchange it
And get a quieter sort?

Ah well, you see, it cleans the house,
Makes sure I'm properly fed,
It washes all my shirts and things
And - keeps me warm in bed!

Despite all these advantages
And my tendency to scoff,
I do wish that once in a while
I could turn the damned thing off!

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Corn Corner:

From Byter Steve:

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Questions

Readers’ Week continued: 

"The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. 

- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 

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Q: What is Readers’ Week? 

A: It is a week when all the posts are contributions from readers of Bytes. 

Q: Who is today’s contributor? 

A: Byter Nadia. 

Q: What’s Nadia’s contribution? 

A: Questions and answers about various things. 

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Nadia's item (thanks, Nadia):

Well ... I do declare ... I never knew that! 

Q: Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left? 

A: When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's right! And that's where women's buttons have remained since. 

Q: Why do ships and aircraft use 'mayday' as their call for help? 

A: This comes from the French word m'aidez - meaning 'help me' -- and is pronounced, approximately, 'mayday'. 

Q: Why are zero scores in tennis called 'love'? 

A: In France , where tennis became popular, round zero on the scoreboard looked like an egg and was called 'l'oeuf,' which is French for 'egg'. When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans (mis)pronounced it 'love.' 

Q. Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses? 

A: In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous. 

Q: Why is shifting responsibility to someone else called 'passing the buck'? 

A: In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility of dealing, he would 'pass the buck' to the next player. 

Q: Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast? 

A: It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would only touch or clink the host's glass with his own. 

Q: Why is someone who is feeling great 'on cloud nine'? 

A: Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud if someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares. 

Q: In golf, where did the term 'Caddie' come from? 

A. When Mary Queen of Scots went to France as a young girl, Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scots game 'golf.' So he had the first course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played, Louis hired cadets from a military school to accompany her. Mary liked this lot and when returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run), she took the practice with her. In French, the word cadet is pronounced 'ca-day' and the Scots changed it into 'caddie.' 

Q: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs? 

A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of dense orange clay called 'pygg.' When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as 'pygg banks.' When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a container that resembled a pig. And it caught on. 

So there, now you know.

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Leo's 2012 Pics, Pt 2

Readers' Week continued:

World's Edge:

The Capilano suspension bridge in Vancouver:

Fractal patterns in dried out desert rivers:

Meditating monks at Pongour Falls:

A sunset eclipse:

Bora Bora from space:

The largest raft of canoes and kayaks in the world:

Adaptive roots in the concrete jungle:

The Hamilton Pool Nature Preserve:

Above the canopy:

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Hollywood Squares

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Readers' Week:

Today’s item is from Byter Vince, a collection of questions and answers from Hollywood Squares. This was an American panel show in which contestants sought to win prizes in a game of noughts and crosses. Instead of placing a nought or a cross on a board, however, they asked celebrities in the noughts and crosses cubes questions. The contestants then had to decide whether the answers given were true. (I think they copied the concept off the Oz version, Celebrity Squares). 

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Vince’s item:

From the original Hollywood Squares TV show... These are from the days when game show responses were spontaneous and not scripted as they are now. 

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Peter Marshall: Paul, can you get an elephant drunk? 

Paul Lynde: Yes, but it still won't go up to your apartment. 

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Peter Marshall: According to Cosmo, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think he's really attractive, is it okay to come out directly and ask him if he's married? 

Rose Marie: No, wait until morning. 

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Peter Marshall: Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?

Charley Weaver: My sense of decency. 

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Peter Marshall: In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I love you"?

Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty. 

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Peter Marshall: Prometheus was tied to the top of a mountain by the gods because he had given something to man. What did he give us?

Paul Lynde: I don't know what you got, but I got a sports shirt. 

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Peter Marshall: What are "Do It", "I Can Help" and "Can't Get Enough"?

George Gobel: I don't know but it's coming from the next apartment. 

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Peter Marshall: As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while you are talking?

Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing older question, Peter...and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget! 

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Peter Marshall: According to Zsa Zsa, does black look sexy on a woman?

Redd Foxx: I wouldn't have it any other way. 

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Peter Marshall: What are "dual purpose" cattle good for that other cattle aren't?

Paul Lynde: They give milk and cookies...but I don't recommend the cookies! 

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Peter Marshall: If you find someone lying unconscious in the street, should you do anything?

George Goebel: I'd probably crawl around him I guess. 

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Peter Marshall: Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?

Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily. 

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Peter Marshall: Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during your first year?

Charley Weaver: Of course not, Peter. I'm too busy growing strawberries! 

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Peter Marshall: In bowling, what's a perfect score?

Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy. 

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Peter Marshall: Eddie, according to the Institute of Motivational Research, a wife should be ware if another woman takes an interest in a certain item of her husband's clothing. What item?

Ed Asner: Well, shorts immediately springs to my mind. 

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Peter Marshall: It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics. What is the other?

Paul Lynde: Tape measures. 

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Peter Marshall: True or false...a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.

George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes. 

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Peter Marshall: Is there a weight limit for bags on airline flights in this country?

Charley Weaver: If she can fit under the seat, she can fly. 

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Peter Marshall: During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?

Rose Marie: Unfortunately, Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom. 

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Peter Marshall: Can boys join the camp fire girls?

Marty Allen: Only after lights out. 

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Peter Marshall: When you pat a dog on its head he will usually wag his tail. What will a goose do?

Paul Lynde: Make him bark. 

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Peter Marshall: True or false, George...experts say there are only seven or eight things in the world dumber than an ant.

George Gobel: Yes, and I think I voted for six of 'em. 

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Peter Marshall: If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?

Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark. 

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Peter Marshall: According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?

Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army! 

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Peter Marshall: Is it possible for the puppies in a litter to have more than one daddy?

Paul Lynde: Why, that bitch! 

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Peter Marshall: While visiting China, your tour guide starts shouting "Poo! Poo! Poo!" What does that mean?

George Goebel: Cattle crossing. 

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Peter Marshall: It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?

Paul Lynde: Mine may be abused but it certainly isn't neglected! 

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Peter Marshall: Charley, what do you call a pig that weighs more than 150 pounds?

Charley Weaver: A divorcee. 

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Peter Marshall: Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?

George Gobel: Get it in his mouth. 

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Peter Marshall: According to Movie Life magazine, Ann-Margaret would like to start having babies soon, but her husband wants her to wait a while. Why?

Paul Lynde: He's out of town. 

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Peter Marshall: Dennis Weaver, Debbie Reynolds, and Shelley Winters star in the movie "What's The Matter With Helen?" Who plays Helen?

Charley Weaver: Dennis Weaver - that's why they asked the question. 

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Peter Marshall: Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?

Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant? 

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Peter Marshall: When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?

Charley Weaver: I'll lend him the car. The rest is up to him. 

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Peter Marshall: James Stewart did it over twenty years ago when he was forty-one years old. Now he says it was "one of the best things I ever did." What was it?

Marty Allen: Rhonda Fleming. 

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Peter Marshall: Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?

Charley Weaver: His feet. 

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Peter Marshall: If you're going to make a parachute jump, you should be at least how high?

Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it. 

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Peter Marshall: Do female frogs croak?

Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water. 

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Peter Marshall: You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?

Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake. 

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Peter Marshall: Your baby has a certain object which he loves to cling to. Should you try to break him of his habit?

Joan Rivers: Yes. It's daddy's turn. 

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Peter Marshall: At NASA, what keeps the cool air running around in the spacesuits?

Paul Lynde: Itsy Bitsy Eskimoes.... 

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Peter Marshall: According to Better Homes and Gardens, Is it a good idea to give your yard a light sprinkle?

Michael Landon: ...well, if you can't make it to the house, I mean... 

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Paul Marshall: What is a good reason for pounding meat? 

Paul Lynde: Loneliness! 

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Paul Marshall: According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed? 

Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.

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