Theres a such thing as a $1000 bill? wtf!

[db]

Is there still that million dollars hanging between two sheets of plastic in one of the casinos in downtown Las Vegas? It was 100 ten thousand dollar bills. I couldn't stop staring at it--my friends are like: "Come on, let's go!"

 

[Russ]

konichiwa,

Don't feel bad. I won a lot of free drinks in the old days because so many people don't know that Franklin was not a President. Just look at the nearest drunk, and bet them a drink that they can't tell who the President is on a $100 bill, and tell them you'll even show them one so they can check.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Whitedog]

Susan B. Anthony...

The list goes on. :Q

 

[Taz4158]

<< who is tony the tiger taz??? >>


Here you go:
Thurl Ravenscroft was born on February 6, 1914. He was born and raised in Norfolk, Nebraska, leaving for Hollywood in 1933 to study art at the Otis Art Institute. He was encouraged to go into show business by the British actor Sir Guy Standing. Early on, Thurl thought he would study opera (0:22), but his singing career took a different course. One of his first radio appearances was as &quot;Lige&quot; Gupton on the The Goosecreek Parson, which was broadcast three times weekly on CBS radio. He went on to join the Paul Taylor Choristers. In 1937, joined The Sportsmen Quartet, who were featured for many years on the Jack Benny Show.

In 1942, as the only unmarried member of the quartet, Thurl enlisted in the military. He served as a navigator in the Air Transport Command for five years. Stationed in Washington, D.C., Thurl flew all special missions over the world. He flew Bob Hope to Morocco for a surprise USO Christmas show for the troops in Casablanca. After take-off, Bob came to the cockpit to greet the crew, saw Thurl and remarked, &quot;Good Lord, Thurl, if I knew you were steering the bus, I'd have taken the train!&quot; He also flew Winston Churchill to a conference in Algiers, where the decision was made whether to invade Europe through France or Italy. During the war he met his future wife, June, a hostess for TWA.

After leaving the service in 1947, he returned to Hollywood and founded his second quartet The Mellomen. They were heard on many Disney Film and Television projects, including:

Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Trick or Treat (1953)
Pigs is Pigs (1954)
Davy Crockett (1954)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
Zorro (1957)
Paul Bunyan (1958)
Elfego Baca (1958)
The Mellomen also sang with Elvis Presley. They appeared on the soundtrack for It Happened at the World's Fair. They also made a brief appearance in the film. The Mellomen also appeared in The Glenn Miller Story, and Thurl played the part of the Indian Medicine Man in the 1954 version of Rose Marie. For more information about Thurl's film career, visit Thurl on Film and Television.

In the 1952, Thurl began providing the voice for what may his most recognizable character, Tony the Tiger. He continues to record commercials for the Kellogg Co., not only in English, but in Spanish as well.

Thurl continued his voice work for Disney's animated films in the 60's and 70's providing voices in movies such as One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, Mary Poppins, and The Aristocats. He also could be heard in several Dr. Seuss television specials most notably the Christmas classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

During the 70's, Thurl was featured on the television show Johnny Mann's Stand Up and Cheer. He also recorded 28 albums as part of the Johnny Mann Singers. The group even performed at the White House.

He narrated the Pageant of the Masters at the Laguna Beach Arts Festival for twenty years. He was heard annually through 1993, describing the tableaux vivants, paintings brought to life on stage. Thurl claims to have learned more about art by doing the pageant than he did in art school.

Thurl has continued his voice work into to the 1990's. He provided the voice for Kirby in The Brave Little Toaster (1987) and both of the sequels as well as singing a slowed-down version of &quot;Grim Grinning Ghosts&quot; on Disney's Sing Along Songs -- Disneyland Fun (1990).

Throughout his career, Thurl has devoted time to activities in the Christian field. He has appeared frequently on The Hour of Power, as a soloist, and has been narrating the &quot;Glory of Christmas&quot; play at the Crystal Cathedral, located in Garden Grove, California since 1981. His album Great Hymns in Story and Song (1970) features some of the best know gospel songs and the stories behind them. He also recorded the Book of Psalms for the visually impaired and narrated the album God's Plan for You, a selection of scriptures from the Bible.

Now mostly retired, Thurl continues to record commercials for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes.

He currently lives in Southern California.

 

[konichiwa]

Russ

Now the true Russ comes out! A drunkard! <grumble> No surprise there... <grumble>

 

[Deeko]

<< you watch TRL?

What kind of a geek are you? >>


haha, while posting on a computer forum, you call someone a geek for watching a show about popular music

btw, Carson said that he was giving away another $1000 and that it was his own money, I highly doubt that, sure they may have gotten it from his account, but I bet MTV is going to reimburse him...not that he couldn't afford it anyway.

 

[Russ]

konichiwa,

What are you, new?

Russ, NCNE

 

[konichiwa]

Russ

No, I took the blue pill.

 

[db]

Hmm, shoulda taken the red one

 

[bigrash]

wow.....and i used to work for a bank and never knew this

 

[erub]

Alexander Hamiliton wasn't a president either, although he probably did more for our country than any of the others other than Lincoln. This is entirely subjective, however.

Grant personally wasn't corrupt, it was just that he choose people and put too much trust in them -- his appointees were corrupt, which caused his presidency to be rocked in scandal.