Dirk the Daring sends in this LOL (and Geezer alert):
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Gotta love the Google one!
Clever names DO stick in the mind. That’s why it was so clever of Arlo Guthrie and Janis Joplin to choose their first names. Likewise jazz player Peanuts Hucko.
Mark: When did any baby choose its own name?
Boise Ed: Babies don’t choose their names but when they get older and see the possibility of becoming famous they often adopt a new name. Julius Marx became Groucho. Norma Jean Baker decided that Marilyn Monroe would probably give a better assurance of stardom. President Garfield was apparently born with that name but would have changed it, had he but known that a certain disgruntled office-seeker hated cats because they always refused to appoint him to offices.
From what I remember reading each of the Marx Brothers had a nickname given to them by someone else in “show business” – though I do not remember who. My dad had a few biographies of the Marx Brothers in the house and I read each of them several times.
Groucho wore what was called a “grouch bag” – a bag in which one could hide their money and other small valuables – a better name he felt than Julius.
Gummo wore gum shoes.
Chico was always after the “chicks”. (In listening to Groucho being interviewed on various television shows (in reruns) Chico is pronounced “chick O” not “cheek O” as most of us call him.) For anyone who might be too young to know a chick is a girl.
Harpo. obviously, played the harp.
Oops – that post was suppose to go on different strip. I am putting a copy of it there if I can.
Ok, I give up. I must have dreamed the post. If it was real it was about why the Marx brothers’ names.
My great apologies for this stupidity – and if such a strip and its comments existed – please think of these posts belonging there.
This is a perfectly fine discussion, even if it fails to have an antecedent.
The information about the grouch bag was new to me. So I’m dying to know: how did Zeppo get his name?
Nobody seems to know how Zeppo got his name. He wasn’t part of the act when they got their names (from someone named Art Fisher). Gummo was drafted into the Army, so Zeppo took his place.
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Gotta love the Google one!
Clever names DO stick in the mind. That’s why it was so clever of Arlo Guthrie and Janis Joplin to choose their first names. Likewise jazz player Peanuts Hucko.
Mark: When did any baby choose its own name?
Boise Ed: Babies don’t choose their names but when they get older and see the possibility of becoming famous they often adopt a new name. Julius Marx became Groucho. Norma Jean Baker decided that Marilyn Monroe would probably give a better assurance of stardom. President Garfield was apparently born with that name but would have changed it, had he but known that a certain disgruntled office-seeker hated cats because they always refused to appoint him to offices.
From what I remember reading each of the Marx Brothers had a nickname given to them by someone else in “show business” – though I do not remember who. My dad had a few biographies of the Marx Brothers in the house and I read each of them several times.
Groucho wore what was called a “grouch bag” – a bag in which one could hide their money and other small valuables – a better name he felt than Julius.
Gummo wore gum shoes.
Chico was always after the “chicks”. (In listening to Groucho being interviewed on various television shows (in reruns) Chico is pronounced “chick O” not “cheek O” as most of us call him.) For anyone who might be too young to know a chick is a girl.
Harpo. obviously, played the harp.
Oops – that post was suppose to go on different strip. I am putting a copy of it there if I can.
Ok, I give up. I must have dreamed the post. If it was real it was about why the Marx brothers’ names.
My great apologies for this stupidity – and if such a strip and its comments existed – please think of these posts belonging there.
This is a perfectly fine discussion, even if it fails to have an antecedent.
The information about the grouch bag was new to me. So I’m dying to know: how did Zeppo get his name?
Nobody seems to know how Zeppo got his name. He wasn’t part of the act when they got their names (from someone named Art Fisher). Gummo was drafted into the Army, so Zeppo took his place.