The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep

What, nobody likes that photo of Kefauver?

I'll give you a hint: kickbacks were involved.

Huey P. Long?

Ah, the Quiz reveals my knowledge of history to be a stew, with names of persons and notable events floating like chunks of unrecognizable vegetables.

Charles Kettering? Teapot Dome? The Black Sox?

BTW, loved the image of Kefauver in coonskin, but url is hideously malformed.

It was Teapot Dome. So who was the letter writer?

And sorry about the crazy link -- it's fixed.

Well... Harding?

Frank Baum?

Did you know that they proved Big Foot's walk can be done by a human if the human is specially trained? Which means the famous vidoe of Big Foot is busted.

It's Warren "Bought and Paid For" Harding! One pint of Standard Oil to Scraps, although Jonathan should get credit for getting us most of the way there.

Here's my question to you, Shannon: where is this special training taking place? Why is the government training humans to learn the Big Foot walk? The more we look into this, the more questions I have!

Was it Mayor Jimmy Walker, "the Jazz Mayor," who gave Leroy Street a second name so no one would know he and his mistress lived on the same street? It's called Saint Luke's Place on the other side of Hudson Street. Jim Naurekis does not mention this is New York Songlines, though he does debunk the legend that Leroy Street was named after the lost dauphin, the son of Louis XIV, who called himself Le Roi. Other famous dwellers on St. Luke's were Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Marianne Moore and Timothy Leary.

Stew indeed.

I mean Louis XVI. Harding, he's not.

Bill, you will have to consult the episode of Mythbusters I saw 9 minutes of while doing that elliptical ski exerciser thing at the gym that makes you bob up and down while watching TV, much like Big Foot crashing through the woods. The video confirms that Big Foot has a big butt.

Wow. Can I trade in my coonskin cap for the name of the play's eponymous hero from 2 weeks ago? The Quiz has made me allergic to Google.

The connections keep coming: Dreiser's American Tragedy is a compelling story of the slaughter of the Bigfoot at the hands of ruthless capitalists. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is known to be based on his 10 months living in a community of Bigfoot like "grotesques" in 1904. Marianne Moore wrote all those animal poems. I bet there was a bigfoot in there somewhere. And Timothy Leary, dearie, took lots of trips. And where do you take a trip? You go West, young man! And what's out west? Lots of mountains and forests TEEMING WITH BIGFOOTS. FEET. WHATEVER.

It's all starting to make the most horrible kind of sense.

Jonathan: William Tell.

Bigfoot was Belgian

Al Gore, Sr. visited W&M and told the following anecdote: Well known for his collaboration with Estes Kefauver in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1963, Gore the Elder got a call in the middle of the night:
"A few of us boys were down here talking about your work on integration and black folks, and we wanted you to know we don't want to eat with them, we don't want to ride the bus with them, and we don't want to go to school with them."
"Well," replied Al Sr., "do you want to go to heaven with them?"
After a pause, the caller replied "No, we'll just go to hell with you and Kefauver."

>Jonathan: William Tell.

Another Squeeze connection!