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Stooges Three I Count Thee
How many stooges does it take to screw in a light bulb? How many stooges were there, anyway? If you took our poll last week, the answer is below.
First the bad news. Nobody voted for the correct answer! You would think that with as many Stooges fans out there, we'd have somebody who knew it.
The good news? The right answer wasn't one of the selections! I hate it when that happens. Honestly, I thought there were five stooges in the three stooges. So all of those who voted (including myself), we were hoodwinked by fate.
And for the strange news? Nobody really knows how many stooges there were. The name "Three Stooges" was in dispute in the 30's, and there were no less than twenty so-called 'Stooges' groups doing vaudeville and other engagements, enough such that Columbia (actually, Columbia's lawyers) placed ads in several papers at the time announcing that the name "The Three Stooges" and "Stooges" were trademarks.
For those of you who only count "real" Stooges, the answer is "6" -- Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe, Curly Joe
But if you only count "real" Stooges, I would think the answer would be "3", right? Or would it be "6"? Isn't everyone a Stooge to some degree? Could the answer be "billions and billions of them?" What are you? Some kind of wise guy? Nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk.
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