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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe lesser-known Marx Brothers (besides Karl)
From a discussion on FB this morning:
Hash Marx -- the family stoner
Punctuation Marx - script editor
Stretch Marx- the tall one
Check Marx -- He kept the books
Registration Marx- civil rights advocate
Pock Marx - the dermatologist
Skid Marx - suffered from incontinence
Chalk Marx- homicide detective
Nose Marx - the dog of the family
Bench Marx - Never got put in the game
Ear Marx - Someone was always giving him money
Deutsch Marx - Their German cousin
Hall Marx - He never forgot a birthday
Water Marx - Had a similar problem to Skid Marx
I'm sure there must be more.
meow2u3
(24,772 posts)Stretch Marx - Karl's wife after she had the baby.
underpants
(182,879 posts)The cousin from Humboldt county
Glorfindel
(9,734 posts)From "Finnegans Wake":
Three quarks for Muster Mark! 2
Sure he hasn't got much of a bark 3
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark. 4
But O, Wreneagle Almighty, wouldn't un be a sky of a lark 5
To see that old buzzard whooping about for uns shirt in the dark 6
And he hunting round for uns speckled trousers around by Palmer- 7
stown Park? 8
Hohohoho, moulty Mark! 9
You're the rummest old rooster ever flopped out of a Noah's ark 10
And you think you're cock of the wark. 11
Fowls, up! Tristy's the spry young spark 12
That'll tread her and wed her and bed her and red her 13
Without ever winking the tail of a feather 14
And that's how that chap's going to make his money and mark! 15
Overhoved, shrillgleescreaming. That song sang seaswans. 16
The winging ones. Seahawk, seagull, curlew and plover, kestrel 17
and capercallzie. All the birds of the sea they trolled out rightbold 18
when they smacked the big kuss of Trustan with Usolde. 19
And there they were too, when it was dark, whilest the wild- 20
caps was circling, as slow their ship, the winds aslight, upborne 21
the fates, the wardorse moved, by courtesy of Mr Deaubaleau 22
Downbellow Kaempersally, listening in, as hard as they could, in 23
Dubbeldorp, the donker, by the tourneyold of the wattarfalls, 24
with their vuoxens and they kemin in so hattajocky...