How did the whole Danny Thomas meme get started?

What meme? I don't read much gossip, so does anyone want to share? I'm just getting into memes and I'm sure it's something delightful I can post for giggles on my Facebook page. Thanks in advance guys!

It's an old rumor started decades ago. Glancing at Usenet archives, I see mentions of it back to 1993, and apparently it was a running meme on Don & Mike's radio show.

No idea where it originated.

Don't say I never gave you nothing

[quote] for giggles

____ and giggles

He used to lay underneath a glass coffee table and jack off while people he hired shit on top

I thought he was a lesbian?

R5, that's disgusting... :-/

R5, I think OP is asking the source for that story. It could be true, but it could also be as fake as the gerbil shoved up Richard Gere's ass. Did someone who knew first-hand (or even reliably second-hand) start or confirm the claim, or is it one of those "everybody knows" stories like so many of the "[Old Hollywood A-list actor] was gay, of course" claims stated as fact?

OP, Julianne Moore. Seriously.

It’s so bizarre and random I think it has to be true.

I think he's tremendous!

I'm guessing that someone who got paid to indulge the fetish started the rumor. (If the rumor is true.)

In the DL bible, You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again, one of the prostitutes said that Sylvester Stallone had a scat fetish. I forgot whether it involved a glass table or not, but it might have.

Separate from that, my friend worked at a resort hotel (room service). He told me that Stallone stayed at the hotel and that one of the housekeepers complained about Stallone leaving shit in the shower. I had never discussed YNMLITTA with my friend, so that story came out of left field, yet corroborated the prostitute's story.

Why do you think it's a rumor?

It's just an "everybody knows" rumor, r8. The first time I heard the rumor it was about Sylvester Stallone, back in the 1980s. It was on Usenet on alt.fan.cecil-adams (which was basically the first version of the Straight Dope forums) where I learned the rumor originated about Danny Thomas.

There's a 1995 "Ren & Stimpy" cartoon referenced it, also listing Raymond Burr and Desi Arnaz as glass coffee table aficionados.

Danny Thomas secretly called his glass coffee table fetish "Scat Girl" in honor of his daughter's success.

Exlax

Sometimes he would wear a priest outfit when he did it.

I’m sick to death of people dumping on Danny Thomas

Well, Danny pooped on the coffee table... The rest is history

The kids these days refer to it as a "glass bottom boat."

Will people ever get passed this shitshow?

It was just a natural progression from doing all those Maxwell House coffee commercials.

Sid Melton apparently confirmed its reliability to Gilbert Gottfried, who was on of the popularizers of this.

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