Happy Spurious Father's Day!

Spurious Nib #151



It is true that Charlie Chan, famous Hawaiian detective had 14 children. A spurious rumor maintains that every Father's Day Chan's offspring would randomly switch places with various neighbor children to see how long it would take the great detective to discover which ones were really his!

Spurious Nib #79

Every Father's Day, Robert L. Billingsly shares his life stories with his beloved wife and children through the magic of shadow puppetry. When "Pops" was done the whole family joined in a rousing rendition of Remember When You Were a Kid? (The Faygo 'Boat' Song).

Spurious Nib #214

Infamous outlaw James McKinney held up his dear, old, father every Father's Day starting when he James was ten years old.











Spurious Nib #486

Amateur opera singer and itinerant bric-a-brac salesman Arthur Schwenck taught his unborn child the lyrics to Gilbert & Sullivan's, Modern Major General (from the Pirates of the Penzance). Upon birth little Stanley could sing it flawlessly.

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).

Spurious Nib History

In 1537, Philip II, Prince of Spain spent exactly 749 days, 3 hours and 49 seconds contemplating the life of carpenter ants. Subsequently, he wrote a seven volume encyclopedia on said creatures. 

Unfortunately, Philip lost all of his furnishings, his vast collection of hand carved whimsical Santas, and every piece of wood in the Royal Palace. Boy, O boy was he mad!