The Spurious Nib

Volume 20

Spurious Nib#9



The first use of "wakah wakah" by a professional comedian took place in 957 BCE at the Laughing Gator Club in Thebes, Egypt. Famous Egyptian ventriloquist, Hepu and his dummy, Koko opened with, "Hey Koko you know how to do the Watusi?" "No, but I know how to wakah wakah like an Egyptian!"






Spurious Nib#27
Ice cream magnate J. F. McCullough trained his favorite bear named Dilly to serve him a root-beer float every evening after dinner.









Spurious Nib#70
Amateur ophthalmologist and Lake Erie ornithologist expert, Giles D. Flique forced his wife Betty to wear a bird cage on her head so that she could "see the world as birds do." Mrs. Flique responded later that evening by forcing her husband to wear a cast iron frying pan so that he could "see how scrambled eggs see the world."

Spurious Nib#160

Major Norbert Flambeau once led and entire flock of flamingos across Zimbabwe in hopes of finding the Garden of Eden. After the flamingos were eaten by a pride of albino, pygmy lions the expedition became known as the Flambeau Follies (not to be confused with the 1973 Flambeau Follies on ice staring JoJo Starbuck).