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Lord Somebody
"As he was driving back to his mansion, Pickfair, Douglas Fairbanks saw an Engli...
Nuttall
"Thomas Nuttall was a pioneer botanist whose main field of study was the flora o...
Knoblock
"Do you see that man just coming in?" John Gielgud asked his dinner companion in...
Harold Urey
While out walking one day, Harold Urey, a Nobel prize-winning chemist famed for ...
Classic Hilbert
While walking along the street one day, the notoriously absent-minded mathematic...
One Way Ticket
On the way to a confirmation ceremony one day, the notoriously absentminded bish...
Walking Toll
William Bowles' daily ride took him along a road which passed through a turnpike...
Thomas Edison: Cabbage Rolls
To his great consternation, Thomas Edison often found visitors in his office hel...
Norbert Wiener?
The renowned MIT professor Norbert Wiener was famed for his absent-mindedness. W...
Wandering Mind
"One day [Isaac Newton] was sent to Grantham on business, a chore he always like...
Absent-minded Professor
While attending a dinner party with professor Irwin Edman one evening, the publi...
Beethoven: Absent-minded Co...
While performing a new piano concerto at the Theater An der Wien one evening, Be...
Pole Vault?
During his high school years in Minnesota, Peter Krause was a dedicated pole vau...
Robert Flaherty: Celluloid ...
As an explorer for Sir William Mackenzie's Canadian railroad, [legendary documen...
Absent-Minded Visitor
Even as a curate, Michael Ramsey, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, was famed...
Absent-Minded Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin was notoriously absent-minded. His publisher, Belaiev, often ...
Absentminded Professor
According to an old tradition at Gottingen University (where the noted mathemati...
Absent-minded Creator
After a devastating electrical storm one day, Thomas Edison was visited by a gro...
Norbert
Norbert Weiner was notoriously absent-minded. When his family moved from Cambrid...
1+1=2
While lecturing on ideal gases one day, Ludwig Boltzmann casually mentioned a nu...
Big News?
When the notoriously absentminded G. K. Chesterton became engaged, such was his ...
Absent-Minded Composer
The notoriously absent-minded composer Alexander Scriabin once arrived at a part...
Schmoozer
"Early in 1961, Russell Baker, then covering Capitol Hill for The New York Times...
Housewarming
"Ralph Richardson seemed destined to have bad luck at the home of his friends, V...
Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards
"Few people know who won the 90 metre ski jump at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Ca...
Feverish Don
"Henry Erskine, Lord Advocate of Scotland toward the close of the eighteenth cen...
Postmaster's Bicycle
"My tutor at Eton, Mr. Arthur James, had a brilliant brain for classics, but not...
Hunt-the-Slipper
"Roger Fry was dreamy, vague, incapable of noticing anything but spiritual disco...
Steeplechase
"At the glorious 1932 Olympic Game, the Finnish athlete Volmari Iso-Hollo was ho...
Reverie
One Sunday morning Adam Smith, famed for his absent-mindedness, wandered into hi...
Secret Life of Salvador Dali
One day Salvador Dali entered a New York bookstore and asked for a copy of his b...
Rough Night?
Frederick Stark called on Beethoven one morning and was surprised to find him in...
Nevermind
While walking along a street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one day William James ...
Woody Boner
One day in 1992 Mia Farrow was horrified to learn that Woody Allen (her partner ...
Absent-minded Professor
The famously absent-minded Irwin Edman, a close friend of book publisher Bob Haa...
Dim Bulb?
In 1802, Immanuel Kant discharged the man (named Lampe) who had faithfully serve...
Pass the Port
The Shakespearean actor Henry Irving once stayed as a guest at the Tennysons' ho...
Isaac Newton: Absent-Minded
One evening a friend arrived as scheduled to dine with Isaac Newton in his room....
Quirky Memory
Tennyson may have inherited his quirky personality from his clerical father, who...
Absent-Minded Ampere
The famed physicist and mathematician Andre Marie Ampere was notoriously absent-...
Classic Bruckner
The notoriously absent-minded composer Anton Bruckner was once invited by Hans R...
Absent-Minded Traveler
In November, 1930, Albert Einstein left Berlin to visit the United States. The E...
Bonohead
Though notoriously absentminded U2 frontman Bono Vox usually lost nothing more i...
Irwin Edman
Professor Irwin Edman, famed for his absent-mindedness, once spent a delightful ...
MacArthur
"As the sun came up [Douglas MacArthur] might have been seen by his fellow offic...
Absent-Minded Professor
The notoriously absent-minded mathematician David Hilbert once found himself tal...
Dumb Logic
Perhaps unsurprisingly, John von Neumann - often called the father of computing ...
Absent-Minded Professor
The notoriously absent-minded Russian composer and professor Alexander Borodin o...
Bishop's Palace
Some time after resigning his post as Archbishop of Dublin in 1884, Richard Tren...
Jimmy Carter: Peanut Farmer
Shortly after Jimmy Carter assumed presidential office, he was given a briefing ...
Absent-Minded Ampere
The famed physicist and mathematician Andre Marie Ampere was famously absent-min...
Missing Person
Shortly after departing on a hunting trip with his brother in 1991, Alice in Cha...
Compositional Trance
"William Butler Yeats, when he was riding the bus, would occasionally go into a ...
Number Six
Max Schodl, a man famed for his absent-mindedness, once hailed a horse cab and h...
Tequila Sunrise?
"I [Yousuf Karsh], preparing to photograph Hemingway, had gone the evening befor...
Change of Heart?
Preparing to host a party one evening, David Hilbert's wife, having noticed that...
Jaw Dropper
"[Steve Lyons] could be remembered as an outstanding infielder... as the player ...
Top Speed!
Late for a lecture one day, Thomas Huxley jumped into a carriage and ordered, "T...
Benjamin Jowett: Art of Con...
"One day [Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford] and a pupil had ta...
Pleasant Lady
In 1979, Lady Diana Cooper (then 86 years old) attended a special event to honor...
Honeycutt
Prior to a game against the Kansas City Royals in September 1980, Seattle Marine...
Love is Blind?
Beginning around the age of thirteen, Enrico Fermi discovered his passion for ma...
Absent-Minded Bruckner
After being ordered by his doctor to take a bath each day, Anton Bruckner began ...
Lapse of Memory
"Frank Benson suffered wonderful lapses of memory. As Caliban, one of his effect...
Absent-Minded Pianist
At a concert one evening, as Josef Hofmann settled himself at the piano, a look ...
Dribbling Moron
On May 6, 1984, the Los Angeles Lakers faced the Dallas Mavericks in Game Four o...
Suzy Hamilton & the Mobil I...
On February 6, 1994, Olympic runner Suzy Hamilton competed in the Mobil Invitati...
Sneaky Rodman?
Dennis Rodman missed a game one day and offered a rather dubious excuse: Accordi...
Liszt's Hat
One day Franz Liszt visited Leipzig with his retinue to hear a rehearsal of his ...
Autograph?
One day William Bowles gave a Bible to Bessie Moore, the wife of poet Tom Moore,...
Mother Ode?
While staying with his friend, Charles Armitage Brown, in the spring of 1819, Jo...
Early Riser?
"I went early to see Beethoven [one day in 1814]," Ignaz Mosheles once recalled....
Escape Artist
"Brodie, deeply immersed in the preparation of a paper, was dragged away from hi...
Note to Self...
Pope John once reported that while falling asleep, important thoughts would freq...
Doofus Wainwright?
Kate McGarrigle was often amused by her son Rufus Wainwright's idiosyncracies.
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Juiced?
Anne Rivers Siddons' husband Heyward once remarked that when she was preparing t...
William Spooner: Salt & Wine
As wine-drinkers everywhere know, sprinkling salt over spilled wine is said to p...
Practical Joker
"Henry Troy, one of New York's leading practical jokers once purloined from a cl...
Beecham Boredom?
Sir Thomas Beecham was no great admirer of fellow composer Ralph Vaughan William...
Absent-minded Professor
Late one evening the famously absent-minded Gotthold Lessing arrived at home an...
Spooner
One day during his tenure as Warden of New College (at Oxford), William Spooner ...
Classic DeMille
One day on the set, Cecil B. De Mille found himself directing a scene in which a...
Dull Man
"Mr. Spooner was one evening found wandering disconsolately about the streets of...
F or F sharp
During the rehearsal of one of Anton Bruckner's symphonies one day, the conducto...
Rhythm
In 1913, the novelist Carl van Vechten attended the premiere of Igor Stravinsky'...
Singer
The famed conductor Arturo Toscanini was in the habit of singing with the orches...
Absent-Minded Morning
G. K. Chesterton was famed for his absent-mindedness. "On rising this morning," ...
Sir Joshua Reynolds: Reynol...
In one of his 3,000 portraits, Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his subject with his ...
Melvin Laird: Stogie Blooper
When President Richard Nixon visited the Vatican in 1970 (at the height of the w...
Dirac's Wife
One day after his marriage to the sister of the noted Hungarian theoretical phys...
Spaced Out
While working with integral equations one day, the great mathematician David Hil...
Britney Spears: Fire in the...
In March 2002, Britney Spears almost burned down the New York apartment. "Brit h...
William Spooner: Former Stu...
William Spooner was famously absent-minded. "Was it you or your brother," he onc...
Chesterton Lost
The famously absent-minded G. K. Chesterton missed so many trains that much of h...
Nelson's Caddie
Byron Nelson was winning the 1946 US Open at Canterbury - until his caddie accid...
John Belushi: Getting Married
"He had no ID with him when we got married," Judith Belushi recalled of her abse...
Hilary Swank: Minor Oversight
In 2000, Hilary Swank won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Brandon Teena in...
Horse Whisperer
Gene Fowler was once approached at a high-school dance by a beautiful young clas...
Absent-Minded Professor
The famously absent-minded professor Charles Hartshorne once encountered a stude...
Sylvester's Proof
"[The mathematician James Sylvester] had one remarkable peculiarity," W. P. Durf...
Absent-Minded Ang Lee
Ang Lee, who once likened himself to "watercress floating on the water," was a f...
Open Windows
Bill Gates's computer-geek image was established well before his days at Microso...
Absent-Minded Mahler
One day Gustav Mahler and his sister Justi visited a two-story cafe in Budapest'...
Douglas-Away
"'Peking, Alec. Peking, Peking.' Sir Alec Douglas-Home's devoted wife Elizabeth ...
Goldie Hawn's Porsche
"Goldie Hawn isn't Hollywood's most observant star," the ...
Well Put?
While walking along a road one night Thales, intently studying the stars, sudden...
Red Priest
Vivaldi, called "the red priest" after his ordination (at the age of fifteen) on...
Wandering Mind
Like many brilliant mathematicians James Sylvester was possessed of a wildly wan...
Erdos
Like many brilliant mathematicians, Paul Erdos was notoriously absent-minded. On...
Classic Curtiz
Famed Hungarian director Michael Curtiz, a bundle of bumbling nervous energy, on...
Typical Thomas Aquinas
"A famous anecdote illustrates Thomas's obsession with the truths of God: He was...
Missing
One day Justice Holmes was dismayed to find that an important volume had gone mi...
Deduction
In his capacity as grand duke of Saxe-Weimar, Karl Alexander was often required ...
Sorcerer's Apprentice
While fuckingvising the sequence in Fantasia (1940) featuring Mickey Mous...
To Dine or Not
The notoriously absentminded Lord Dudley was in the habit of rehearsing conversa...
Badly Managed Wallet
When he won the Mercury Prize (the British equivalent of a Grammy), Damon Gough ...
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