*My thanks go out to PrincetonLA, of Los Angeles, California, where I used to live, for reminding me that Victor Frisbee was the name of a fictitious character (and urban legend?) who appeared in the old Los Angeles Examiner newspaper and presumably in other LA area media outlets somewhat frequently from at least the late 1950's through the early 1960's, especially around the time of the annual Rose Bowl game, when he would be first described as being everything from a visiting plumber from Iowa to anything else that the reporters involved could think of, and then quoted as saying the most outrageous words that that they could think up to put into his mouth, which went on until this tradition "died" on January 8, 1962, when the morning Los Angeles Examiner was folded into its afternoon sister paper, The Los Angeles Herald-Express.
Friday, November 2, 2007
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