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  • Charles M. Schulz: Good Grief!

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    "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz's comic vision was inspired by a childhood punctuated by a series of misfortunes and failures. One day the future cartoonist went to see a movie at a theater which had promised chocolate bars to the first 1...

  • Howie Mandel - Helium voice prank

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    Howie Mandel on one of his favorite pranks: "I had one voice where it sounded like I was in a terrible helium accident and I would go to the emergency rooms of hospitals -- before I was on TV, they didn't know who I was -- and I would go to the ad...

  • Michael Moore - Young Idealist

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    After a year at the University of Michigan, Michael Moore started working on a General Motors assembly line (like his father) in Flint, Michigan. He did not stay long. Michael called in sick on his very first day and never went back. Why did Michael at...

  • Eddie Murphy: Great Song

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    One day in 1985, Eddie Murphy got a call from Stevie Wonder. "We're working on this great song," he explained. "You've got to come down to the studio." "I can't," Murphy replied. "I'm working on a song of my own."Eddie's song? "Party All the Time" (Sam...

  • Cher - West Side Story singalong

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    Young Cher once waited until she was home alone so she could sing along to "West Side Story" (reenacted on a television special). Cher recalled putting her hair in pigtails and announcing: "'I am proud to present West Side Story. I will be playing all ...

  • Howie Mandel: Amusement Park

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    Howie Mandel once worked as a ride operator at an amusement park. "Make sure the orange safety harness over your left shoulder is securely fastened," he would warn riders. "We're going upside down in five seconds!" This announcement was invariably met ...

  • Simon Cowell - first "American Idol" contestant

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    "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell was nasty from day 1. "That was terrible, I mean seriously terrible," he told the show's very first contestant, prompting fellow judge Paula Abdul to start crying and walk off the set.Paula later hired a writer to cou...

  • George Clooney - Bachelor

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    After his divorce from Talia Balsam, George Clooney vowed never to remarry or have any children. Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer once challenged Clooney to put his money where his mouth was, each betting $10,000 that the second part of his vow woul...

  • Ashton Kutcher - mile-high club

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    Ashton Kutcher once tried to join the mile-high club. Things did not work out as planned. "It was weird trying to get two people in there," he recalled, "and there was like a moron convention going on around the bathroom door. So there was no opportune...

  • Romark: Psychic Driver

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    On October 12th, 1977, the famed hypnotist Romark declared that, in a public display of his remarkable psychic powers, he would drive through Ilford... wearing a blindfold. After placing two coins, a slice of dough, and a thick band over his eyes, Roma...
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What is an Anecdote?

   
an·ec·dote Click to hear the pronunciation [an-ik-doht]
n.
1. A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
2. pl. an·ec·dotes or an·ec·do·ta: Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography.

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George Clooney: Clooney's Vault

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In 2003, George Clooney bought a home on lovely Lake Como in Italy. Among the contents left by the previous owner was an empty thousand-pound safe marked "Explosives." One day, Clooney arrived home and was astonished to find that burglars had attempted...

Niels Bohr: Barometer Question

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During a physics exam one day, young Niels Bohr was asked to "describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer." "You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer," he replied, "and lower the barometer from the roof of ...

Richard Branson meets Sir James Goldsmith

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Virgin Records' founder Richard Branson was once invited to an exclusive party at the luxurious home of billionaire merchant banker Sir James Goldsmith. While admiring Goldsmith's beautiful pool, Branson -- on a whim -- crept up behind his host and pus...

Charles M. Schulz: Good Grief!

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"Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz's comic vision was inspired by a childhood punctuated by a series of misfortunes and failures. One day the future cartoonist went to see a movie at a theater which had promised chocolate bars to the first 1...

Jessica Simpson: Pants Off

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"I'm really clumsy, so I trip and fall a lot," Jessica Simpson once confessed. "And every time I perform in New York my pants split onstage. That's happened four or five times. Every time, I pull on my mom's jeans as fast as I can, so there we are, sta...

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  • WOW

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    In 2001, ads for Opie and Anthony's notoriously dirty show on WNEW-FM were pulled from forty buses in New York City. The problem? Officials had discovered that the duo's "WOW" logo was a code encouraging women to doff their tops.

  • Angels in Paradise?

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    Every Fourth of July weekend, between eighty and a hundred thousand bikers and gawkers descend upon Hollister, California for the Independence Motorcycle Rally. In 2002, Mark Singer visited the town on assignment for the New Yorker.Because a contingent...

  • Big Forehead Club

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    "I never really thought of myself as a beefcake kind of guy," Ben Affleck remarked one day in 2003 (shortly after being named "the sexiest man alive" by People magazine), "nor was I treated like one until recently. I was never pretty. I always thought ...

  • World Toilet Organisation Declares World Toilet Day

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    World Toilet Day was on November 19th... Just as Christian saints have their days, so do causes. Over 100 are in the grandest category: UN "observance" days, usually set by the General Assembly. But anyone can link a date to a campaign. In 2001 the Sin...

  • Birthday Girl

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    Soleil Moon Frye once gave her mother a wonderful birthday gift: on her own third birthday, she approached her mother and spoke for the very first time. "Mommy," she said, "will you please come and look at my painting?"[In 1992, Soleil underwent breast...

  • George Harrison: Conscious Defendant?

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    George Harrison's song "My Sweet Lord" was so similar to Phil Spector's "He's So Fine" (a 1963 Chiffons hit) that Harrison was sued by Bright Tunes for copyright infringement. His defense? He had not "consciously" borrowed from Spector's tune. The verd...

  • Rapid Fire Golfer

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    While playing the game of his life at Olympia Fields in Chicago one day, legendary gangster Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn -- six under par through 16 holes -- was informed that police had tracked him down and were asking questions at the clubhouse. McGurn ...

  • Practical Joke #276

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    While touring, Enrique Iglesias and his entourage regularly played practical jokes on one another. "We played a trick on one of the guys from our record company," he once recalled. "We left him naked in the hallway outside our hotel room, then called s...

  • Jason Ritter: Tan Wizard

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    Once when he applied himself [with sunscreen] Jason Ritter missed a crucial spot. 'I got a burn in the shape of a lightning bolt, like Harry Potter, in the middle of my forehead!'

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    Shakira once admitted that she had been rejected for membership in her school choir... because she sounded like a bleating goat.She added that she didn't care... because she dreamed of becoming an astronaut.["My dad is in charge of the vitamins," Shaki...

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