Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Shasta.ARPA Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!Shasta!rose From: rose@Shasta.ARPA Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: F. Leghorn Message-ID: <1498@Shasta.ARPA> Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:54:46 EST Article-I.D.: Shasta.1498 Posted: Mon Nov 4 15:54:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Nov-85 00:08:05 EST References: <10656@ucbvax.ARPA> <1809@saber.UUCP> <130@minnie.UUCP> <150@Glacier.ARPA> <2766@randvax.UUCP> Reply-To: rose@Shasta.UUCP (David Rosenblum) Distribution: na Organization: Stanford University Lines: 19 Summary: In article <2766@randvax.UUCP> boren@randvax.UUCP (Pat Boren) writes: > >> I will drink a toast in >> very good whiskey to anyone who knows who Foghorn is indeed >> based on. > > >Isn't he based on a real senator back in the 40's named >Cleghorn? He was from the south and sounded a lot like >the big chicken. No, there was not a REAL senator back in the 40's named Cleghorn, but there was a character on Fred Allen's radio show ("Allen's Alley") in the 40's named Claghorn, I beleive, who was a Southern senator; this is the character Foghorn Leghorn was based on. The show featured an odd assortment of regulars, but I can't remember any more of their names. -- David. (rose@su-shasta.arpa)