G'day geni,
On 7/13/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG
<guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
How many articles do we have on people known only
for their
deformities? The only one I can think of is Joseph Merrick.
articles on people famious for thier phyical abnormalities include
[[Chang and Eng Bunker]]
[[General Tom Thumb]]
[[Lavinia Warren]]
[[Zip the Pinhead]]
[[Myrtle Corbin]]
[[Frank Lentini]]
[[Jane Barnell]]
to a degree [[Sarah Biffen]]
[[The Doll Family]]
[[Johnny Eck]]
[[Elizabeth Green the Stork Woman]]
In some cases --- particularly Sarah Biffen --- these people are famous
in their own right. For the rest, although they were indeed famous only
for their deformities, they were *so* famous that they're still
well-known a hundred years later.
I'll make you a deal. If Brian Peppers is famous in 2090 (and we're all
still alive and still contributing), I'll write the damn article myself.
--
Mark Gallagher
"What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse