We Have a Wiener!!!

Well it turns out that the "lad in green" is far from Irish.
Samuel Horwitz aka Shemp Howard....

was more of a Lithuanian Jew.

.....and damn it if Mz. Maggie Pollard didn't know it again!!

You know.....

if Mr. Dave O'Connor would turn his

Thursday evening guesses

into Tuesday morning guesses.....

Pollard would be going DOWN!!

--An original 3 Stooge...

replaced by his brother Curly...

and returned after Curly's stroke at age 42.

--Drove through the front window of a barber shop in his teens....

never drove again.

--Big boxing fan...was returning from a fight one night with a friend and died while lighting a cigar in the back seat of a taxi......heart attack at age 60.

--His wife is a distant relative of U.S. Rep Barney Frank.

--He is mine and Alex Trebek's favorite Stooge.

--Appeared with John Wayne in the 1942 movie....."Pittsburgh"

Marty

Joliet, IL