Q-What ?
Whilst reminding us not to distract any nearby dolphins – ‘Dolphins don’t automatically breath, they have to tell themselves to’, this page of facts also volunteers that – ‘Frank Zappa’s mother, Evelyn, invented the Q-Tip’. Well that dolphin fact is correct, but my researchs cannot determine the correctness of the fz fact, or even what a Q-Tip is. Any ideas ?
July 29th, 2003 at 9:59 pm »
q-tip is the thing you use to clean your ears with (a baton with cotton on each side)
July 29th, 2003 at 10:18 pm »
Yeah, it’s sometimes called a cotton bud.
I rather doubt this fact because I think we would somehow have heard of it before. I’ve read most available books about Zappa and none of them mention this.
July 29th, 2003 at 10:23 pm »
I’ve just checked in Neil Slaven’s book and he gives FZ’s mother’s name as Rose Marie.
The whole thing appears spurious to me.
I can’t imagine a modified dog inventing the Q-tip.
July 29th, 2003 at 11:00 pm »
Ze Q-tip sing iz utter nonzense…
Efryvone knows zat ze device vas invented for James Bond, who had ze dangerous habit of cleaning his ears mit his car keys – in effect, ruining a perfectly gut mini-uzi mit mounds of ear vax.
Ze named it after ze inventor…
July 30th, 2003 at 8:44 pm »
Simply brilliant.
July 31st, 2003 at 3:43 pm »
Q-TipsŪ were invented in the 1920′s by a Polish-born American named Leo Gerstenzang. Here’s the source: http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/q-tips/
From my observation, many of the “facts” are correct. Others are questionable. Still others are incomplete. For example, Kermit the Frog is, indeed, left-handed. However, it is worth noting that almost all the muppets are left-handed. Check out ANY guitar playing muppet on the Muppet Show!
August 2nd, 2003 at 8:17 pm »
Thanks for all the info. Most of the facts seemed ok to me, so interesting that this should be spurious.