May 23, 2005

Starting Up The Rumor Mill

We just learned the other day (via our good friend XOverboard) that Frank Gorshin has died. We couldn't also help noticing that Mr. Gorshin was with his wife of 48 years when he died. And here's the funny thing about that: we had a friend in high school who claimed (and was backed up in her claim by those close to her) that she was being courted by Mr. Married For Forty-Eight Years when she was still in high school (and when he had been happily married for about twenty years by our calculations). Based on the data available to the Funny Farm News Burro at this time, we estimate that this was an example of a seventeen year old girl being courted by a man in his mid forties. Yeah - a few of us thought it was a little odd back then, too*. Although we always heard that he was a wonderful person, and a gentleman. Oh yeah - and that his codpiece was not stuffed.

We welcome any enlightenment of this alleged philandering from our devoted readers.

* - we might be a tad over the age of consent these days (cough), but, trust us, we aren't talking about the times in history when it was fashionable for old farts to seduce young girls. And we don't ever remember a time when it was fashionable when you were already married...

Posted by (: Tom :) at May 23, 2005 09:47 PM