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...Johnny knew his limitations - some called it shyness, others arrogance - and, naturally, bent it into a joke. "I will not even talk to myself without an appointment," he wrote in the late 60s. In lieu of interviews, Carson supplied all-purpose answers to journalists' probes: "Yes, I did"; "I can't answer that question"; and "As often as possible, but I'm not very good at it yet. I need much more practice...
...wedding of Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky: Carson's all-time highest-rated show featured the nuptials of an eccentric ukeleleist (whom I had seen perform in his early Village days) and a 17-year-old fan. The following week, Carson had a honeymoon joke: "There are already signs of trouble in the marriage. Last night Miss Vicky hung a sign on their hotel room doorknob that said: 'Disturb...
...change everything else. "We didn't do the therapy thing," says Armstrong, "but we talked about the fact that with people outside of the band, we interact like adults. Then we get back together, and it's like, 'Dude, you got a booger!'" Having agreed to retire every lame joke about one another, they moved on to the task of redefining their creative process. "We like each other a lot, which is a problem," says Dirnt. "Because not being afraid to fail in front of those closest to you is the most difficult thing in the world. We needed...
...that multiple traps, used in tandem, could let scientists play traffic cops on a molecular level, separating a substance into component parts--removing bacteria from blood, for example. For a year, Grier and Dufresne had been trying out fancy glass splitters, but nothing had done the trick. As a joke, Grier tried a $5 piece of plastic. "It should not have worked," he says. But it did: the "cheesy piece of plastic" split the laser beam into 16 parts, which gave the two scientists the potential to capture 16 separate substances. It was the breakthrough they had long been after...
...project. "If there's scientific data, that's one thing," he says. "But basing all of this on anecdotal stuff ..." Recently, he was emailed pictures of a chimp with a pug-dog's head and a seal sprouting a gorilla's face. "Clearly, someone thinks we're a joke," he says. An analysis of hairs found in the ground nests identified their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) as East African chimpanzee. Williams counters that finding with three arguments: the DNA could have been contaminated, the use of human genetic markers might mask hidden differences, and mtDNA would not show variation...