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The Fourth Stooge / fact or fiction?

 

Everyone has heard of the Three Stooges but few know there actually was a Fourth Stooge, called Chinless. Chinless was really one funny Stooge but was delegated to obscurity because of his volatile behavior. Chinless really had some funny Schtick but so often demanded center stage that the other Stooges started to resent his domineering attitude. Very soon after the act got it's start they began booking themselves the Three Stooges and left the Fourth Stooge behind. Chinless made several attempts to solo, but was not well received. In anger Chinless started acting out like a little child. Chinless couldn't make any headway on his own so he started to publicity bad mouth his former cohorts. Chinless would rant against the Three Stooges with any tripe he could muster, often no more than exaggerations and "slight of hand" deceptions were the tools he liked to employ. Yes there was a Fourth Stooge and he was just like the other three except for the fact that he liked to hog center stage. Chinless wanted everyone to believe all the good stuff was his idea. He in fact, was his own worst enemy. Chinless had the biggest mouth of all the Stooges and no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't restrain his ignorant rallies of verbal diarrhea. Some may remember the Connecticut independent Stooge show that roared into the headlines only to fade just as fast into oblivion. So while the Three Stooges had a long and successful career, Chinless became an insignificant footnote. 


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