My Anecdotes

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Bumpy Read

Aldous Huxley`s cousin once expressed his sympathy over the noted writer`s near-blindness. "It is not without...

1361 year 23 weeks ago
First Impressions

For his role as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins perfected many creepy...

1061 year 23 weeks ago
Cls Qrtrs

Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker once shared a tiny office in New York`s Metropolitan Opera House. "One cubic foot less...

941 year 23 weeks ago
Humble Poet

William Cullen Bryant was so inspired by the work of William Wordsworth that he was moved to prayer. "Please, God,"...

1021 year 23 weeks ago
Class Clown

"As a kid, no doubt trying to seize attention from the family, Jim Carrey became a serious extrovert. He loved Christmas...

961 year 23 weeks ago
Dumb Luck

"Two gangsters, James Gallo and Joe Conigliaro, set out to murder a stool pigeon, Vinny Ensulo, alias Vinnie Ba Ba,...

1071 year 23 weeks ago
Edward Blake

The great Canadian Liberal statesman Edward Blake was a socially awkward man renowned for his prim Victorian morality....

941 year 23 weeks ago
Romanian Rainbow

In May 2002, Gheorgher Funar, the patriotic mayor of Cluj, Romania, ordered several dozen garbage bins painted in...

981 year 23 weeks ago
Pardon?

One day Frederick the Great conducted a tour of inspection of a prison in Berlin. While most prisoners approached the...

961 year 23 weeks ago
Mystic Yapper

The Florentine mystic and Carmelite nun St. Mary-Magdalen dei Pazzi preached so volubiy during her ecstasies that she had...

781 year 23 weeks ago