Sybil's "Interesting People Around the World".... the Adler Academy...

....The Adler Academy of Psycho-Melodramatic Research has encouraged its students to participate in extra-curricular activities, including sledding, tobogganing, pairs ice-dance, and nude "snow-angel-making". The champion team is made up of (from left) Fritz Snitzelklinker (Norway), Karl-Juss Svenskeller (Sweden), Merne Petrisch (Denmark), and Aнанас Pпиріг (Ukraine)..... and their coaches, Father Petrov Hammeir and Pinky Thrinkleton, two nice men who live together in a charming cottage just off campus.... with their 11 cats.... and a mynah bird named Mr. Beatrice.....

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]

Sybil Bruncheon’s “Celebrity Birthdays In History”... January 7th, 1846...

... Prudence "Poo-Poo" Charmondeley. Although she seemed to live on the streets of London, no one was ever really able to figure out exactly WHERE! Her great sense of humor and her ability to play five different instruments and sing clever little ditties, romantic ballads, and popular songs kept her constantly busy with a frying pan in front of her filled with coins from her devoted following.

Prudence apparently had perfect pitch and a savant's ability to remember perhaps over 15,000 songs according to musicologists who came under her spell. She was offered contracts at prominent theatres and music halls, but she remained out on the sidewalks with assorted "buskers" and "pearlies" whom she often paired with in impromptu "Musical-Ettes" as she called them.

In addition to all her other talents, she had an uncanny knack for composing both poems and songs on the spot when audience members would provide her with a word or a name to build all her rhymes and meters on... Scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, and the Filbert Academy for Exceptional Ladies & Their Deportment measured her intelligence at a "genius level".....comparable to Dickens, Dante, and Sir Gyrus Quzzizzleton.

She died at a very great age, although it was impossible to determine exactly what at the time. She was buried in Potters' Field in a grave marked by a simple wooden cross. It wasn't until 3 months later when her butler and several of her 34 servants and employees finally discovered her fate and tracked her down. Prudence Charmondeley had in fact been a great lady of noble birth. Her estate lay just a few miles out of the city, and she was known by her staff to go on what she called "little jaunts to friends" for days at a time. They never suspected that she spent her "away time" on the street or in basements, sheds, and abandoned shops... She also had been building her already considerable fortune with weekly bank deposits of hundreds of pounds!!....all made in small change!! Her butler told the press that it had always puzzled him when he would help her carry little paper bags filled with coins....

After all the legal rigamarole, she left vast amounts of money to her loving servants, to various friends of hers on the street, and finally to the building of a luxurious sanctuary for wayward cats and stray dogs who had been her trusted confidantes and dinner companions through the years! The townhouse in Belgravia still stands and has a bronze plaque on it inscribed "The Charmondeley Foundation For Four-Legged Friends Of Humans"....

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]

SYBIL'S "Aren't People Interesting?"....

SYBIL'S "Aren't People Interesting?"...... today, we visit the Chapel of Our Lady Of Perpetual Vapors..... Did you know that the Little Sisters of the chapel there hold their vows of chastity so dearly, that they shut themselves off from ALL contact with the temptations of the outside world. They are not allowed to shake hands or even to BREATHE the same air as workmen who come to make repairs on the grounds.... The Mother Superior, Magda Immaculata Lysol-ette was quoted as saying, "Men! MEN! Rough, hairy beasts with grabby-hands and only one thing on their minds!.... or is it, Hairy-handed things with one beast roughly on their grabby minds..... or maybe, mind that one grabby thing he's holding in his rough beasty hands!....whatever....".... The sisters adhere to a stringent vow of poverty, supported by a diet of beans, cauliflower, and broccoli....

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]

...and today in the news!... the Harrow family...

...and today in the news, there was both triumph and tragedy in Carrington Corners, Iowa. Mr. Donald Harrow and his lovely wife Madeline were celebrated at the National Scouting Jamboree last night in Des Moines when they and their four sons were honored as the most accomplished family in the history of the organization. Their badges, patches, and special merits have never been matched in the Scouts 108 years. Seen here at the banquet are Donald and Madeline flanked by their sons (clockwise from lower left) Jebediah, Enoch, Simon, and Murray. Sadly, after the banquet, the family was plunged into disaster.... Murray, apparently was disgruntled about a Muffin Sciences patch that he lost to his brother Enoch. Murray, on the other hand, had a record-breaking number of awards in fire-starting and making locks.... There were no survivors. 

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]

Sybil Bruncheon's "HOLLYWOOD HISTORY ON THIS DATE!".... February 9th, 1931...

... Like so many other children of the Depression, little Spiffy Markle had been brought by hopeful-but-desperate parents to California in the hope that he might become a star. Blessed with good looks, a naturally cheerful disposition, a lovely singing voice, and a keen understanding of Shakespeare (his prekindergarten production as KING LEAR had the New York critics swooning!), he seemed born for the silver screen. His screen tests with Buster Keaton, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and the Barrymores were stellar. And so he made the rounds with his parents from one studio to another for interviews.... Warners, Columbia, RKO, Universal.....Unfortunately, here he is at the lesser ranked "Really Swell Pictures Studio" being photographed by Pete the Panda.

The session went smoothly, unlike the photo shoot the previous day at MGM when the studio's lion tried to EAT little Spiffy while he photographed him. Louis B. Mayer was mortified...  Sadly, Spiffy's career floundered in the Really Swell Pictures Studio attempt at the children's market. They never matched the success of the OUR GANG films, with their "POOPY-PANTY PLAYHOUSE", although some of the musical numbers were well imagined....and of course, Spiffy's voice was actually heard in the "talkies". His transition into adult pictures never really worked either. 

Tragically, Pete the Panda became a "booze hound".....he began bootlegging cheap liquor he made from fermented bamboo that he got imported especially for "religious and dietary traditions" and the US State Department "looked the other way". He was so lovable, and very popular in the "Un-BEAR-able Comedies" he starred in the 1920s and 1930s. He ended up in a sanitarium in 1945. Spiffy left the studios and went on to sell real estate in San Bernardino.... but he never forgot his old studio-mate and first friend at Really Swell. He rescued Pete, and they made a killing in the bamboo patio furniture craze of the 1940s!..... You see? There actually ARE a few happy endings in Hollywood... 

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]

Cold enough for ya'????

...ah, yes... The forlorn Bureau of Winter Despondency. Citizens report to the Chamber of Dates to witness the days crawl by, one after the other, on and on and on... The snack bar, which is open at indifferent hours at the whim of a disgruntled staff, serves week-old donuts and lukewarm coffee with some powdered creamer and maybe a stubbed out cigarette butt... or some old gum... The place smells of mildewed galoshes and moth balls...but... well... that's Winter for you! ...oh, and that sound you can just barely make out?... that's the sad tick, tick, tick, of the clock... Nope!… it's not even February yet.....

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!] 

Sybil Bruncheon’s Tales & Tails... a tragedy! ...and a lesson...

......sadly, little Billy's head was never properly house-broken.... his parents later abandoned him on a roadside near Waterville, Ohio on his 8th birthday... he was not wearing a collar or identification tags, and it's believed that he was "put to sleep" at the local ASPCA a week later... 

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]

Sybil Bruncheon's "Hollywood TRUE STORIES!"....

....after Popeye and the Disney gang signed an agreement, they went on a rampage of arson, extortion, kidnapping, bribes, Ponzi-scams, smash 'n' grabs, knifings, and cheap-cologne bootlegging. Their reign of terror included the infamous blowing up of Heckle & Jeckle's woody station wagon as they were leaving for church last Sunday. There were no survivors. (Police are still trying to determine if Tweety Bird and Woody Woodpecker were the as yet unidentified passengers in the back seat! Details at 6. Film at 11.) 

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]

Sybil Bruncheon's "Interesting People": Vladimir! ...and Natalie!!

...poor Vladimir! He grew up in a time and place that didn't understand his predilections, his desires, his deepest secret, and the journey he wished to take! Where to go? Who to even ask??? And how would it be accomplished? Even in this new century, with all its new marvels and scientific discoveries, was it actually possible to become the person he was meant to be? Fortunately, his family were members of an ancient and respected imperial court located in an out-of-the-way corner of the Balkans. The name is not important, and the principality was one of dozens tucked "cheek-by-jowl" in a constantly bickering and conspiring area of the mountainous Eastern European wilds. Finally, a nice theatre and ballet professor that Vladimir had had at Acting Camp suggested a Dr. Victor Phrahnkenshteen in Bavaria who was making breakthroughs in revolutionary eye-lifts, nose reductions, tummy tucks, and ....um, more. Six months later, Vladimir re-emerged like the rare "Moldavian Purple Caprice" butterfly. He, or rather "she" (her new name was Natalie Dragomiroff!) took her place in royal society as a person of great influence in the arts and sciences, in fundraising circles and events, and at great galas and pageants! Her pet causes included the Bosnian Blood Drive, The Wallachian Wolf Welfare Society, and improvements in railway safety.

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]

I WANT YOU.......

HEY, FRIENDS!!...do me a favor, will you? Share this poster with everyone on your page! Every one of you, please share this with every single person on YOUR page! Please don't just "like" it! SHARE IT!! It really isn't an option this election year for people NOT to vote. I don't care how "frustrating it all is"! I don't care how "mediocre all the candidates are"! I don't care about all the other blah! blah! blah! that people use as an excuse not to participate in this world of ours. I'm a pain-in-the-ass, I know! But I insist that the people I know join in and do their part to keep the world spinning forward, not backward. Register! AND VOTE!...Period! Thank you!!

[Want to read other fun and funny stories here on SybilSez.com? Just enter any topic that pops into your head in the "search" window on the upper right! Who knows what might come up?...and feel free to share them with your friends!]