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First words over the telephone? Were they "Watson?! Can you hear me now? ...GOOD!?"
I got a couple... What OTHER mammal lays eggs? and, What is the name for those little plastic things they put on the tips of shoe laces? |
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I'm glad people are playing but can we answer a question before we ask 2 or 3 more?
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ok so apparently no one wanted to guess my question since it just got pushed aside and prison wasnt the right answer... the question was where did larry the cable guy originate from? as in where did he get his start?
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I don't have any idea where is Naked Kitty when you need her?
See guys you need to answer one before asking more. Most people prefer it if you play nice. |
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kntrygal, I'll play your game and try to answer. Wasn't Larry the cable guy REALLY a cable guy once, and got into comedy because everyone thought he was so funny?
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Sooooorry
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its ok
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Daniel Lawrence Whitney got his start doing stand-up comedy in Blue Springs Missouri. He now uses thew name Larry the Cable Guy.
Orson Welles last movie was the 2004 movie, "The Hitch Hiker", it was a vocal role only and it was notable because he had died nine years earlier. |
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First words on the telephone, "Mr. Watson....come here...I want to see you."
I think you used to have to answer the phone by saying your exchange which was like your phone number, like PA6-5000. (From the song "Pennsylvania 6-5000" And the egg laying mammals are the duck-billed platypus and the spiny ant-eater. Okay....I just confirmed it....I am a geek with no life!!! |
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The shoelace things are called aglets, and the only reason I know that is because that word keeps turning up in crossword puzzles.
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close you have a life here
first words; Watson come quick I need you...alex got a small shock and freaked out phone greeting was ; Ahoy |
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Carebear, ...the geek in me is speaking...but there is a dispute in the first words....some reports have it the way you wrote it and some have it the way I wrote it, so I think that was a tie!!!
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Spiny Ant-Eater? I had heard it was the Echidna (simmilar to a hedgehog). Is that that the same thing? If not you may be right.. I just thought that was right cause I heard it on TV and they never lie on TV
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did he just say it was the enchilada? lol
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the echidna, is the other name of the spiny ant eater ....so they didn't lie this time!!!
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well larry the cable guy got his start in tampa florida on a radio station called 95ynf with the ron and ron show, he was just a little part at first and the listeners liked him so they added him more and more to the show.. he was on with a guy name fezz whatley also and it wasnt missouri where he started, he is from florida
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I'll accept a tie
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do we have all our answers in?
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kntrygal1964, this is from Wikipedia
[edit] Early life Whitney grew up in Pawnee City, Nebraska; he moved to Palm Beach County, Florida with his family when he was 16 where he attended Berean Christian School. His father, a preacher who once played guitar with the Everly Brothers, worked as the principal of the nearby Berean Christian Elementary School. Whitney worked at Wendy's until 1985, when he began doing stand-up comedy with other West Palm Beach locals like buddy Jamie Porter. He continued his career at the Comedy Club in Blue Springs, Missouri, on amateur nights at the encouragement of friends and coworkers. In 1991, he began doing radio comedy, where he would call into stations as fictional characters. The "Larry" character was created after a friend from one of the stations asked him to call in as a cable installer. [edit] Comedy career Whitney started a career in radio as a disc-jockey in Blue Springs, Missouri. He moved to Omaha, where he was a personality on the short lived alternative station 101.9 The Edge KGDE. This followed by stints at Rock 100 WDIZ and 101.1 WJRR in Orlando before meeting the Blue Collar Boys. He became known in the South in the early 90s when he made regular radio appearances via phone on programs such as the Ron and Ron Show. He was also a regular via phone during the late 90s on Z-92's The Todd and Tyler Show in Omaha, Nebraska, on the nationally syndicated Chris Baker Show Friday mornings, as well as the Kirk, Mark, and Lopez morning show on 98 Rock in Baltimore, MD. He was also a frequent guest on the Johnny Dare and Murphy show on 98.9, KQRC, Kansas City. Larry's trademarks are Redneck-style humor, recounting bizarre stories about his "family," delivered in an affected thick Southern dialect, and using, among other common expressions, his own catchphrase "Git-R-Done!" Don't mean to be a geek but as I said...I have no life and I find looking up info fun. I try to check things back that I post. |
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well dont meant to be a stickler but the question was where did larry the cable guy get his start (the persona not the real guy) and since i know first hand how the whole cable guy thing came about, so just because something is published doesnt always mean its correct information.............but anyway enough of this, it was just a question not intended to get into a who's right and who's not thing, just because something is looked up on the computer doesnt necessarily mean its correct. ok im not goin into this anymore............have fun
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