Day on Wikipedia and a Haircut

Jul 28, 2006 17:11

Courtesy of the internet's best website, you are brought what is POSSIBLY one of the greatest pieces of sports and film trivia out there that you can fit in a sentence.



During a visit to Charlie Chaplin's home with the Great Britain Davis Cup lawn tennis team in 1921, multi-talented sportsman Maxwell Woosnam - an Olympic and Wimbledon tennis champion and one-time captain of the England national football team - defeated Chaplin at table tennis while playing with a butter knife instead of a bat and in an effort to cheer Chaplin up after this loss, Woosnam threw the actor into his own swimming pool, after which Woosnam
and his team-mates were asked to leave.

Congrats to lyndsay in her new SLACKER job. Pure awesome hen.

Oh, yes. As a matter of fact I saw him on the stage when I was in Warsaw once before the war. What he did to Shakespeare we are doing to Poland.
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