Dog3 <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in
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> "limey" > got out the keyboard and wrote
> :
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>> "Wayne"wrote in message > I
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>> <snipped for brevity>
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>>> Having said all that, I still maintain that on a very early episode,
>>> a fowl slipped to the floor, and I dispute the word of the "experts"
>>> who swear it didn't happen. IIRC, and I'm sure that many will say I
>>> don't, the episode in question was not involved in cooking the fowl
>>> that dropped, but one in which she was giving a detailed description
>>> of a range of fowl from turkey to goose to duck to capon to chicken
>>> to Cornish hen. All were lined up on the bench and one slipped,
>>> either the duck or chicken.
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> Here's a comment from another newsgroup, Wayne. It certainly rings a
>> bell with me, if only for her comment!
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>> ".....On one program she dropped the chicken on the floor, picked it
>> up to carry on, looked straight at the camera and said, 'Remember, you
>> are alone in the kitchen - no one will ever know' ".
>>
>> Dora
>
> Supposedly this is an urban legend which has made the rounds for years.
> Check it out:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/julia.htm
>
> Michael

I've read this and other accounts refuting the incident, but I still
disagree and maintain that "I saw it happen". Maybe someday someone will
dredge up the kinescope, video, or film from that long-ago show and
dispel the real myth. <g>

--
Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.