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nutt wrote:
> "David Firewater" <davidfirewater.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>"nutt" <octaviola@yahoo.com> wrote
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>>>That is a disturbing image. (BTW, it's Lamarr, after Hedy Lamarr who
>>>was famous both for being one of the first movie actresses to do nude
>>>scenes and for co-inventing the first missile guidance system.)
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>>Nah, it's named after Hedley Lamarr of Blazing Saddles fame...
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> Yeah, that was the first thing that came to my mind too.
Sheesh, so many fledglings about these days. Hedy Lamarr goes back a
very long time before Blazing Saddles. Mel Brooks borrowed her name.
She was a gorgeous actress, spy, and inventor born in 1914. History
lesson:
http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/lamarr.html
I *love* the quote under her picture!
-dreq