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 ?
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q-tip is the thing you use to clean your ears with (a baton with cotton on each side)
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.
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.
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…
Simply brilliant.
Q-Tips® 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!
Thanks for all the info. Most of the facts seemed ok to me, so interesting that this should be spurious.