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Two-Stroke Penalty (Johnson anecdote)
During a memorable LPGA game in 1995, Elaine Johnson was astonished to have one ...

Spartan Accomodation (Johnson anecdote)
Dr. Johnson possessed an intense distaste for all things Scottish. On an excursi...

Stony Reply (Johnson anecdote)
One day Samuel Johnson and his biographer James Boswell found themeselves discus...

Ossian, My Ass? (Johnson anecdote)
The volume of poems allegedly written by the Highland bard Ossian (and translate...

tou·ché (Johnson anecdote)
Two ladies once complimented Dr. Johnson on his recently published ...

Whoopi Goldberg: Young Stripper (Goldberg anecdote)
Early in her career, Whoopi Goldberg found work as a bricklayer and sheet-rock i...

Jet Magazine (Johnson anecdote)
On November 1st, 1951, Jet magazine was founded by John H. Johnson to cel...

Divine Wit (Johnson anecdote)
One day Bill Moyers, LBJ's press secretary, was called upon to say grace at lunc...

Highway to Hell! (Johnson anecdote)
During the American invasion of Panama in 1989, troops blasted AC/DC's "Highway ...

Bloody Relatives... (Johnson anecdote)
LBJ's daughter was once asked by a journalist to describe her relationship with ...

The Rock: Kissing Scene (The Rock anecdote)
While preparing to shoot an intense semi-nude kissing scene on the set of ...

Scottish Timber? (Johnson anecdote)
On his famous tour of Scotland with James Boswell (his biographer), Dr. Johnson ...

Executive Privilege (Johnson anecdote)
Tennessee senator Andrew Johnson's denunciation of secession made him rather unp...

High Hopes (Johnson anecdote)
At twenty-six, LBJ was appointed director of the National Youth Administration o...

Lateral Thinking? (Johnson anecdote)
Upon first moving to Hollywood, Nunnally Johnson was asked how he expected to fi...

Turbulent Sea? (Johnson anecdote)
Famed screenwriter Nunnally Johnson once arrived at a restaurant to have lunch w...

Johnson's Johnson (Johnson anecdote)
In 1968, during a press conference in Thailand, LBJ, meeting with reporters outs...

Tip Off (Johnson anecdote)
"Robert Wood Johnson, the former chairman of Johnson & Johnson, was known to be ...

When Pigs Fly? (Johnson anecdote)
One Sunday morning, Dr. Johnson's biographer James Boswell attended a Quaker mee...

Tents Decision (Johnson anecdote)
President Lyndon B. Johnson once sought a way to remove J. Edgar Hoover from his...

Don Johnson: Big Spender (Johnson anecdote)
Don Johnson was once asked how he had managed to spend most of the millions of d...

Standing Joke (Johnson anecdote)
The blue-eyed, carrot-topped, freckle-faced leading man Van Johnson zoomed to pr...

Double Date (Johnson anecdote)
Burgess Meredith once found himself on a regrettable date with the actress Dorri...

The Rock in L.A. (The Rock anecdote)
While driving in Los Angeles one day, the Rock found himself stopped at a light ...

The Rock: That's Entertainment (The Rock anecdote)
"We had a very philosophical conversation the other day," the Rock once recalled...

Baby Talk (Johnson anecdote)
Samuel Johnson once took pity on a poor woman trudging through the rain with a s...

Boswell Meets Johnson (Johnson anecdote)
One day James Boswell was finally introduced by a friend to Dr. Johnson (after s...

Schmoozer (Johnson anecdote)
"Early in 1961, Russell Baker, then covering Capitol Hill for The New York Times...

Johnson's Patron (Johnson anecdote)
During the eleven years which he spent compiling his famous dictionary, Samuel J...

Dirty Dozen (Johnson anecdote)
Don Johnson's romantic career began at an early age. By 20, he had seduced his c...

Tawny Pipit (Johnson anecdote)
One day in 1944, the screenwriter Nunnally Johnson and a group of his fellow wri...

Obliging Johnson (Johnson anecdote)
Johnson once found himself engaged in a lengthy argument with a dim-witted gentl...

Nasty and True? (Johnson anecdote)
Samuel Johnson, according to legend, once told an aspiring writer that his manus...

Johnny, Walker? (Johnson anecdote)
Andrew Johnson was an unlikely president: A runaway indentured servant who had n...

Super Freak (James anecdote)
In the early 1990s, Rick James spent three years in California's Folsom prison (...

Real Women (Johnson anecdote)
"Betsy Johnson was applauded for designing clothes for 'real women, cellulite an...

Inner Sanctum (Johnson anecdote)
After three bars of organ music, "Inner Sanctum" opened with the sounds of Raymo...

Landslide Lyndon (Johnson anecdote)
In 1948, Texas Governor Coke Stevenson ran for a U.S. Senate seat against Texas ...

Pipe Dreams (Johnson anecdote)
Sir William Johnson once received a shipment of fine clothing from England - a s...

Difficult to Please (Johnson anecdote)
Dr. Johnson had little appreciation for music. Someone once remarked upon the vi...

Johnson Last Refuge? (Johnson anecdote)
Johnson was noted for his patriotic chauvinism. Visiting the countryside in Nort...

Cool Calculation (Johnson anecdote)
One day, Samuel Johnson informed his former Oxford tutor that he planned to comp...

Nut Cracked? (Goldberg anecdote)
Manhattan was the perfect place for a restless child like Whoopi Goldberg to gro...

Presidential Message (Johnson anecdote)
On January 8, 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson delivered a brief Presidential message. Th...

Lyndon B. Jackass (Johnson anecdote)
During the 1964 presidential election race, Lyndon B. Johnson suggested that his...

Lionel Johnson: Alcohol Kills (Johnson anecdote)
In 1902, the English critic and poet Lionel Johnson died in a bar. The cause of ...

Ross Johnson: Fetching Moment (Johnson anecdote)
"The model perk hog [in the 1980s] was Ross Johnson, the C.E.O. of RJR Nabisco, ...

Whoopi Goldberg: Big Surprise (Goldberg anecdote)
While discussing dating and sex one day, Joan Rivers asked Whoopi Goldberg if he...

Johnson to the Fore (Johnson anecdote)
When LBJ was majority leader of the Senate, his colleagues were encouraged to wo...

Lizard of Oz? (Johnson anecdote)
A dull country magistrate once belabored Samuel Johnson with a tedious account o...

Smelly Argument (Johnson anecdote)
Someone once informed Dr. Johnson that he smelled. "Incorrect, Sir," the lexicog...

A Critic At Large (Johnson anecdote)
Dr. Samuel Johnson was once asked to share his opinion of Laurence Sterne's ...

Collective Genius (Johnson anecdote)
One day, Samuel Johnson's mother, seeking solitude, gave her infant son (he was ...

LBJ (Johnson anecdote)
LBJ, according to Maxim magazine, "bedded five of the six beautiful secre...

JAP Chicken (Goldberg anecdote)
When her neighborhood assembled a cookbook to raise funds for a local environmen...

Lyndon B. Johnson: Smoking Gun? (Johnson anecdote)
Many conspiracy theorists (insluding JFK director Oliver Stone) suspect L...

Who Converses With Fools? (Johnson anecdote)
Someone conversing with Dr. Johnson once chanced to recite a line from Henry Bro...

Johnson on Marriage (Johnson anecdote)
Dr. Johnson was once told of a gentleman who, having been unhappy in marriage, h...

Foam and Froth (Johnson anecdote)
On September 26th, 1830, Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson stood on the steps of the...

Psychic Friends? (Johnson anecdote)
Following his stellar career with the Los Angeles Lakers, Magic Johnson worked w...

Comic Relief (Goldberg anecdote)
While promoting a concert in 1986, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal and Robin Will...

Kristen Johnson: Destined for Stardom (Johnson anecdote)
"3rd Rock from the Sun" star Kristen Johnson seemed destined for stardom from an...

Pentagon Papers (Johnson anecdote)
On August 5th, 1964, the front page of the New York Times reported: "Pres...

Scotchman (Johnson anecdote)
A Scot, perhaps unaware of Dr. Johnson's intense distaste for all things Scottis...

Samuel Johnson: Music Lover? (Johnson anecdote)
A lady, having completed a brilliant harpsichord performance in his presence, as...

Donut Break? (Angelou anecdote)
Maya Angelou's early work as a market researcher in the Watts district of Los An...

Color Commentary (Johnson anecdote)
A certain female writer, whose politics Dr. Johnson disliked, was rumored to hav...

Suckers (Johnson anecdote)
In order to finance a new edition of Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson decided to offe...

Samuel Johnson: Lapidary Inscriptions (Johnson anecdote)
Someone once remarked upon the apparent discrepancy between an epitaph carved on...

Popularity Counts (Johnson anecdote)
In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his famous "Great Society" speech calling f...

Johnsonian Horseplay (Johnson anecdote)
Dr. Johnson was once rebuked by a woman demanding to know why he had defined "pa...

Who's Counting (Johnson anecdote)
Former University of Illinois star quarterback Jimmy Johnson once announced his ...

Magician Mayor? (Johnson anecdote)
In 2002, former Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson announced his plans to run...

Rubber Stamp (Johnson anecdote)
American vice presidents have historically held remarkably little political powe...

Thoughtful Gifts (Johnson anecdote)
Lyndon Johnson once gave several friends and acquiantances engraved gifts to ens...

Whoopi! (Goldberg anecdote)
From what previous stage name did actress-comedienne Whoopi Goldberg derive her ...

Mouseketeer (Goldberg anecdote)
during the production of Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg was not pleased to f...

The Vamp (Johnson anecdote)
Like most screenwriters, Nunnally Johnson was often peeved by the liberties whic...

Korean Diplomacy (Johnson anecdote)
While visiting Korea one year, President Lyndon B. Johnson received a formal apo...

Big Unit (Johnson anecdote)
During batting practice one day in 1988, 6'10" Montreal Expos pitcher Randy John...

The Rock (The Rock anecdote)
One day in 2002, Stuff magazine's Dan Bova met the Rock for an interview....

The Rock: Tongue-Lashing (The Rock anecdote)
The Rock was once asked why, in a notorious incident during a University of Miam...

The Rock & the CFL (The Rock anecdote)
Before his incarnation as a professional wrestler (aka "The Rock"), Dwayne Dougl...

The Rock: Walking Tall (The Rock anecdote)
In Walking Tall (2004), the Rock plays a former Special Forces operative ...

The Rock: Cookin'! (The Rock anecdote)
The Rock once shared a lively exchange with WWF guest-hostess Gennifer Flowers. ...

The Rock Says (The Rock anecdote)
During an appearance on CBS News Sunday Morning one day the Rock was aske...

The Rock: Enchanted Evening (The Rock anecdote)
As a young man, the Rock (Dwayne Johnson) made a substantial sacrifice to be wit...

Don Johnson & Dennis Hopper: Pimple (Johnson anecdote)
Dennis Hopper, who directed Don Johnson in The Hot Spot, was not one to s...

LBJ: Crossing the Hall (Johnson anecdote)
CBS reporter and White House correspondent Robert Pierpont once had lunch at the...

Chad Johnson: End-Zone Celebration (Johnson anecdote)
After scoring a touchdown during a game in December 2003, Cincinnati Bengals rec...

Kristen Johnson: Dressing Room Visitor (Johnson anecdote)
One day "3rd Rock from the Sun" star Kristen Johnson heard a sound in her dressi...

Whoopi Goldberg: Sanctimonious Whoop (Goldberg anecdote)
Esquire magazine once called Whoopi Goldberg "sanctimonious" and urged he...

The Rock: Celebrity Status (The Rock anecdote)
One day, the Rock, dismayed that his young daughter did not delight in talking t...

Samuel Johnson: Oats (Johnson anecdote)
Much of the humor in Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary came at the expense of t...

Samuel Johnson: Oats (Johnson anecdote)
In his famous dictionary, Samuel Johnson sarcastically defined pension as "an al...

Ill Communication (Johnson anecdote)
"...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a comp...

Snoop Doggy Style (Ndegeocello anecdote)
Me'shell Ndegeocello was once asked about her musical inspirations. "I like Snoo...

Lusty Johnson (Johnson anecdote)
During his tour of the Hebrides, Dr. Johnson attended a party held in his honor....

Uncle Ho (Johnson anecdote)
In the mid-1960s, it became clear to Lyndon B. Johnson that the escalating war i...

Giant Ego (Johnson anecdote)
Don Johnson was never noted for his modesty. Indeed, visitors to his Beverly Hil...

The Rock: Drinking Story (The Rock anecdote)
The Rock was once asked to recall a drinking story from his days as a student at...

The Rock: Come to Me (The Rock anecdote)
The Rock was once asked what cologne he was wearing. The conversation went as fo...

Johnny on the Spot (Johnson anecdote)
In 1868, impeachment proccedings were initiated against President Andrew Johnson...

Wrestling with Metaphors (Johnson anecdote)
"Body slams are like snowflakes," WWF wrestler The Rock once poetically remarked...

White Slave Traffic Act (Johnson anecdote)
Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson was once convicted of violating the "White Sla...

Super Serendipity (Johnson anecdote)
"In 1982, a nasa nuclear engineer named Lonnie Johnson was working at home on a ...

Paul Johnson: Lunch Invitation (Johnson anecdote)
"A colour supplement journalist went down to Buckinghamshire to interview that w...

An Excuse for Drinkers? (Johnson anecdote)
When, in later years, Dr. Johnson's wife insisted that her failing health made i...

Diplomatic Dueling (Johnson anecdote)
LBJ once tried to persuade his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara, to allow a...

Johnson's Beagles (Johnson anecdote)
President Johnson often appeared in photographs with his pet beagles, 'Him' and ...

Keyshawn Johnson (Johnson anecdote)
"Week 4, 2000: Keyshawn Johnson says he will 'kill the Jets.' Results after the ...

Charles Johnson & the Buffs' Fifth Down (Johnson anecdote)
In October 1990, the University of Colorado Buffs met the Missouri Tigers in a m...

Van's Fans (Johnson anecdote)
"Van Johnson made The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) at the height of his p...

Samuel Johnson (Johnson anecdote)
"We talked of the Ouran-Outang, and of Lord Monboddo's thinking that he might be...

Whoopi! (Goldberg anecdote)
"When I was younger," Whoopi Goldberg once remarked, "I tried to go down on myse...

Airborne President (Johnson anecdote)
Lyndon Baines Johnson, not noted for his sophistication, was a subject of some d...

Kamehameha the Great (The Rock anecdote)
In 2002, the Rock was cast to play Kamehameha the Great in a film about the lege...

Rick James Shopping Spree (James anecdote)
"Rick James crashed an in-store benefit at an L.A. boutique last weekend," the ...

The Rock: The Next James Dean? (The Rock anecdote)
From the start of his wrestling career, the Rock had Hollywood aspirations. "Wil...

Introducing... The Rock (The Rock anecdote)
The Rock was once asked to recall the worst reaction he had ever received from f...

Beverly Johnson (Johnson anecdote)
"My husband was just okay looking," fuckingmodel and actress Beverly Johnson onc...

Tristram Shandy (Johnson anecdote)
"Nothing odd will do long," Samuel Johnson declared one day in 1776. "Tristra...

Robert Johnson: Deal with the Devil? (Johnson anecdote)
"Legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson died at the age of 27 from someone pois...

The Rock: Small Island (The Rock anecdote)
In the summer of 2004, the Rock (half-Samoan by birth) accepted an invitation to...

Pastoral (Angelou anecdote)
In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou recounts an encounter (in 1957) wit...

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