| ....... |
| ....... |
 |
|
| Displaying Taxis Anecdotes: 49 Found |
Srinivasa Ramanujan: 1729
Srinivasa Ramanujan was a mathematical prodigy. "I remember once going to see hi...
Roundly Rewarded
Having emerged unscathed from a duel in a secluded corner of London, Lord Alvanl...
Arthur Griffiths: Born Sent...
"Arthur Griffiths, Manchester newspaperman and born sentimentalist, with several...
Deductive Reasoning?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, ofte...
Waterloo
One day Montgomery hopped into a London taxi. "Waterloo," he declared. "Station?...
Taxi Driver
Scheduled to address the nation one day, Winston Churchill, running unusually la...
Big Bouncer
Before his incarnation as a 7' 450-pound professional wrestler, Big Show briefly...
A.S.S. Enterprise?
Leaving the Algonquin Hotel one evening, a well-lubricated Robert Benchley found...
Sympathy In E Major?
While riding in a taxi in New York one day, Sir Thomas Beecham began repeatedly ...
Big Fan
One day in 2002, Luke Wilson was asked for an autograph by his Kenyan cab driver...
Last Request
While working as a correspondent during World War I, Irvin Cobb was sent to Belg...
Rothschild's Father
One evening, Lord Rothschild alighted from a hansom cab, giving the driver a gen...
Thomas Beecham: Picadilly S...
While walking through London one fine summer evening, young Thomas Beecham began...
Noble Transport
Joseph Choate, visiting at a certain duke's residence one day, found himself sta...
"Thor Heyerdahl"
The famed anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl was waiting for a car to take him to a B...
Dog's Dinner
"Ida Patlanski, a visiting British friend of ours, summed up New York's humour f...
Acoustic Kitty
In 1966, the CIA hatched a plan to discover Russia's Cold War secrets by install...
Tommy Cooper: Taxi Tip
Comedian Tommy Cooper got out of a taxi one day and slipped something papery int...
Tallulah Bankhead's Bentley
Tallulah Bankhead celebrated her first success in London by purchasing a beautif...
Major League Manager
"Managing is a low-security profession," Lindsay Nelson once remarked, "as I was...
Cleat Mark
During a Pittsburgh-Penn State football game which Robert Maxwell was officiatin...
Transjordan
Transjordan, which had become part of the British mandate of Palestine in 1920, ...
Absent-Minded Ampere
The famed physicist and mathematician Andre Marie Ampere was famously absent-min...
Pavel Bern: Tourist in Prague
In January 2005, the Czech daily newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes, inspired by...
Number Six
Max Schodl, a man famed for his absent-mindedness, once hailed a horse cab and h...
Puppy Love
Beatrice Lillie once took a cab to a smart London hotel with her Pekinese puppy....
Top Speed!
Late for a lecture one day, Thomas Huxley jumped into a carriage and ordered, "T...
Carol Burnett: Taxi
As she hopped out of a cab one day, Carol Burnett caught her coat in the door. A...
Tough Strand
"I [Ford Madox Ford] had a very elderly and esteemed relative who once told me t...
Vice-Consul Puffkins
"The most curious visitor I ever had at the Foreign Office," J. D. Gregory once ...
Little Recognition
"Toots Shor, New York restaurateur, boarded a taxicab some months ago, and asked...
Chinese Food
Before a concert in Sheffield, England one day, Whitney Houston ordered Chinese ...
Woody Harrelson: Completely...
One night in June 2002, perpetual stoner Woody Harrelson broke his way out of on...
Legendary Songwriter
Legendary songwriter Harold Arlen always felt that his songs were better-known t...
Dignified Solution
Following his appointment as director of the Conservatoire in Paris, to uphold t...
Scott Rudin
Scott Rudin's abuse of assistants has become a thing of legend. "Like the tale o...
Badly Drawn Boy: Mistaken I...
The Fall's Mark E. Smith once mistook Damon Gough (the singer better known as Ba...
Sheridan: Beaten?
"Lord John [Russell] told a good trick of [Richard Brinsley] Sheridan's upon Ric...
Yo-Yo
"Yo-Yo Ma, the cellist so nice they named him twice, was asked how he could have...
DMX: What These Bitches Want
DMX - whose songs include "What These Bitches Want" - was once asked what bitche...
Marcel Marceau
"Marcel Marceau opened last night at Theatre on the Square," ...
Rather Odd?
"In 1980, there was the cab ride in Chicago during which Dan Rather, in town to ...
Patricia Arquette: Angelic
"Right after New Year's [2005]," Patricia Arquette recalled, "we went outside to...
Bobby Lowich: Finding Girls
"One time," cabbie and writer Bobby Lowich recalled, "I rode a guy who asked me ...
Car 54, Where Are You?
The application of new technology to the production of music occasionally has un...
Sex Machine
Julia Sweeney, famed for her role as the androgynous "Pat" on "Saturday Night Li...
Pierre Trudeau
One day in the early 1980s, an opinionated Toronto taxi driver harshly criticize...
Shaw's Ego
"I recall how Nancy Astor forced a recalcitrant George Bernard Shaw into signing...
Elisabeth Rohm in New York
"One night when I was 18," Elisabeth Rohm once recalled, "I was out till about 5...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
[Back To Browsing/Searching page] |
|
|
 |
Web Design Abacus, © Anecdotage.com: Famous People. Funny Stories.
Jokes and funny stories about celebrities
. |
| |
