The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42893   Message #623743
Posted By: Rick Fielding
08-Jan-02 - 06:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Great Performer Pranks, practical jokes
Subject: RE: BS: Great Performer Pranks, practical jokes
Nah Bob...It's just our AGE!

Here's one that I've heard so many times from reliable sources I KNOW it must be true.

The late Ed McCurdy, while doing a weekly show for CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) in the fifties, would get annoyed when the cafeteria was jammed and he was trying to get lunch. Apparently he'd break into the bawdiest song he knew (at top volume) and the women (and probably the men too, 'cause it WAS the fifties) would grab their trays and beat a hasty retreat out of the cafeteria, into another room.

Rick