Here's something I bet you didn't know: Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney's creator and manipulator and vocal source, also co-invented one of the first artificial hearts with Dr. Henry Heimlich, of Maneuvering fame.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Ventriloquism
Did you know that the adjective relating to ventriloquism is "ventriloquial?" Which as a child I mispronounced adorably as "ven-tril-o-quo-yal." I had the notion at one point that I wanted to be a ventriloquist. My parents wouldn't let me have a dummy, though, and no one really wants to see a ventriloquist talking with his empty hand. So here's a Jerry Mahoney dummy I found:
Here's something I bet you didn't know: Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney's creator and manipulator and vocal source, also co-invented one of the first artificial hearts with Dr. Henry Heimlich, of Maneuvering fame.
Here's something I bet you didn't know: Paul Winchell, Jerry Mahoney's creator and manipulator and vocal source, also co-invented one of the first artificial hearts with Dr. Henry Heimlich, of Maneuvering fame.
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I stumbled upon a true crime blog article on the Bender Family.
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thanks, Gerard....
ReplyDeleteScott, I once owned the deluxe version of this dummy, which was about ten-percent larger and had both moving eyes and a rotating head.
ReplyDeleteGar, can you still throw your voice?
ReplyDeleteRevealed! Now we know where the expression "Talk to the hand!" first originated.
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