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    Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    He has a Rev. Jim Jones thing going on in those pictures.
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    Image of Kid Canada Kid Canada
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    He later took all his life savings, his ability to clothe himself and feed himself, and put it all on Poppa's Mustache in the third.
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    Those old timers are CROOKED! We know about the mobbed-up Sinatra, the "payola'd" Dick Clark and now Larry "Friend of Koufax" King, I am waiting for the shoe to drop on "Reeg" Philben.
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    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    They drive and drive, Larry and Herbie up front, Sandy and another kid named Bernie in the back. They find the Carvel, where the price for three scoops is indeed 15 cents, and then they pile back in the car. "Sandy knew New Haven pretty good," King goes on. "He says, 'Listen, I'll drive you around. Cut down this street, and we'll be on Broadway, and I'll show you the main drag.' " Somehow, they end up at an election rally. Somehow, Larry and Herbie end up on stage introducing the mayor. "Sandy can't believe it," King says. "He collapses. He's on the floor . . . he couldn't stop laughing." It takes King more than 10 minutes to tell the entire story, and when he is done the ovation is loud and long. "Every inch of this story is true," he says. "It seems like it's not, but it's true. I swear to God."


    But there's a problem.


    "This is Sandy Koufax," the man on the phone says a few days later. "I've never been in New Haven, not to this day."


    Furthermore, he says, he and Larry King have never been friends.


    In fact, he says, even though they grew up in the same neighborhood, he didn't get to know King until long after both had left Brooklyn behind. King was on the radio by the time they met, and the Carvel story had already become a part of his life.


    "I asked him about it," Koufax remembers.


    And?


    "He just laughed."

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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    I just checked over at The Smoking Gun. The arrest was for grand larceny/writing bad checks.
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    Image of SteveJeltzFan SteveJeltzFan
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    If you're going to use one adhesive, make sure it's Kenington Winter brand!
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    No, no, it's all true, and Sandy Koufax was the jockey.
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    Image of Father of 2 Future First Rounders Father of 2 Future First Rounders
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    Larry King is so old, Jesus is in his year book.
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    Image of ScientificMapp ScientificMapp
    05/20/09

    @Father of 2 Future First Rounders: His first wife was a waitress at the Last Supper.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    05/20/09

    @Father of 2 Future First Rounders:


    He was voted most like to resurrect.

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    Image of ArkansasFred ArkansasFred
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    What about his other horsey tale? The one where his son broke his leg riding a skateboard and he put him down with a captive bolt pistol.
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    Image of ScientificMapp ScientificMapp
    05/20/09

    @ArkansasFred: But he let him call the coin toss first?
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    Image of HockeyMountain HockeyMountain
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    Finally, a photo of the long-lost Mr. Purple
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    Image of David Hume David Hume
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    If I could bottle Larry's look in that photo, I'd sell it from a pushcart in Brooklyn and make a fucking fortune.
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    Image of ClintonPortishead ClintonPortishead
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    He's aged well in the 1,038 years since that mugshot was taken. I'm going to guess his offense was bread thieving, or perhaps sorcery.
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    Image of Civil Negligence Civil Negligence
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    And 'Lady Forli' was really a bedroom nickname for his 9th wife.
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    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    That's an even more embarrassing horse story than Catherine the Great's.
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    Image of Doug Dascenzo's Only Fan Doug Dascenzo's Only Fan
    05/20/09

    In reply to Shocker: Larry King's Horsey Tale Is Full Of Holes
    Hold on a fucking second, are you telling me my grandfather didn't really kill 49 "kraut bastards" with his bare hands?
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    Image of jackvinyl jackvinyl
    05/20/09

    @Doug Dascenzo's Only Fan: z'that you, Bobby Hill?
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