How can you knock any sense in his head / When you’re whacking him on the wrong end?
—Nipsey Russell
Julius “Nipsey” Russell (1918–2005) was an American comedian, poet, and dancer best known for his appearances as a panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, such as Match Game, Password, Hollywood Squares, and To Tell the Truth. He was known for his short, humorous poems he would recite, which led to him being known as “The poet laureate of television”. (Photo: Russell in 1977 in a publicity photo for The Love Boat, via ABC)
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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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