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"He once used a "little person" to bat? What a jerk. You should not use people to bat. They make lousy bats. They are bendy and soft, and they complain a lot when the ball hits them.
Eric Taylor 🤣😂🤣
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Eric Taylor
So true. You use them as stumps.
I so needed that this morning thank you so much 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
I see a cat, I click. I am a simple woman.
Yeeeeah, I think that's like half the internet... The other half clicked because it's Simon Whistler!
I am a man and I approve this comment
Girl*
Oh yeah, Im that easy too :) Simon and factual knowledge is just gravy.
Me too and I'm male I have 4 of them😍
I thought he said that he used a little person AS a bat. Now that truly would be stranger than fiction
"Operation Mincemeat" was the subject of a successful 1953 book by Ewen Montagu,, "The Man Who Never Was", and 1956 British movie of the same name, produced by André Hakim and directed by Ronald Neame. It stars Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame and features Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin and Stephen Boyd.
I have a cat that regularly brings mice , rats and even rabbits from the field behind my house. I recently had a mouse living in my oven however and when I brought him in and sat him on the oven, this aroused the mouse causing scratching noises within, he simply investigated for a few moments before giving up and walking away uninterested..."cats".
So, I tried to thank my cat for her ancestor's military service, but she just ignores me.
Mine ignored me too, then went and polished the family Victoria Cross.
@Owain Shebbeare lmao! It's only 4 AM yet you have jus given me my "lol" for the day. Thank you my friend.
Maybe she outranks you.
That’s amazing, so humble about his/her service they won’t accept a thank you.
My kitteh gets fed three times a day and a spoonful or two of yogurt and all the belly rubs she demands.
Amazing how drugs are usually involved in things, though cats may not be drugs, but they sure are addictive... :P
I'm one cat short of being a crazy cat lady. Problem is I'm a male.
Disappointed when I looked it up and found out the little person in question merely batted in the game and wasn't actually the bat. I'm a awful person.
People as bats whine waaaay too much when struck with a baseball.
.the cat thing is new to me, but I know ferrets were used in the trenches! I'm for Mary Miles Mintner, or her mother....Taylor though is now thought to be gay, and perhaps blackmail was involved. But Mintner's life was horrific.
I read a book about his murder. The book mentioned Mary Miles Minter. She did have a tragic life.
It wasn't that "a lot of people had to die" in order for Queen Victoria to succeed to the throne, it was that none of her uncles (who were all ahead of her) had any heirs.
Legitimate heirs, plenty of bastards
I grew up around farmland and everybody nearby had at least a dozen stray cats in their barns for mousing purposes. I didn't even understand the idea of cats as housepets 'til I moved to the city. Since then I've had several lovely ones.
Same.
You sound like David Attenborough and morogn freeman's love child. Loving the content
Perfect description.
I'm in love with Simon
This must be a new symptom of Coronavirus. Get yourself to a hospital right away, because Simon is everywhere and it's hard to avoid him. Stay safe!
D Davis same i almost felt like fan girl sad then he said he was married. the never bieberfever
Everyone is.
@@CallieMasters5000 lol
Its the beard.
Another Top Tenz with only 8
When Simon was talking about baseball in the first and last stories, he really pretended to look like he knew what he was talking about (pinch hit, world series, no hitter, double header). A fine acting job. I smashed the like button so hard.
How do you start with #8 but its called toptenz. ?
Have you thought about putting together play lists with videos from each of your channels? You could make them theme based so each list would have its own theme. You could have one list be about sports in general and another about a specific sport or team. You could have a play list yuuuuuuue and still others about certain brands and contests or more ŷrace’s people ôpipppkkpp JB hope p
Did you fall asleep while typing? Lol
Simon is an amazing RUclips host. I'm particularly fond of the episodes that are somewhat obscure such as this one.
@13:30 "He became an outspoken advocate for racial equality at a time when athletes were discouraged from voicing their opinions." That time is still now. Look at the backlash over taking a knee.
Simon is taking over RUclips hahahaha 😂😍
Thank you Simon ! ❤
General Me O Ow 😁
I chuckled.
3:44 how can there be a "Yugoslav nationalist" before Yugoslavia ever existed?
Watch the Outlaw sometime, it's supposedly about boobs, but it has massive gay subtext. I was -- surprised. I guess nobody at the time picked up on it as it wasn't totally in your face.
When I saw the cat, I clicked. Meow!!
"You Could Look it Up", 1941 magazine short story by James Thurber PREDICTED (or inspired) the midget at the plate.
Fact: Bill Veeck wanted to buy the Phillies during WW2 and planned to stock the team with African American players. The National League rejected the sale even though Veeck’s offer was the largest.
I wonder if the Germans had cats in WWI. Could cats in the trenches given the Allies the edge?
Either way, I salute their murderous hatred of vermin.
Actually, the Dock Ellis story isn't quite so strange: I really suck at billiards under normal circumstances, but the one time that I totally aced a match was when I was high off my tits on molly.
"Higher than a Georgia pine." Simon is so funny.
Old American Southern saying.
Marilyn Guinnane he sure is great.
Uh... Why does a TopTenz video have only 8 entries?
Cats are undoubtedly the best domestic and undomestic animals that ever exhisted
Thought this was gonna be all about cats, I'm high, like this guy, so I stay
Cats? Mine were so enthralled that they both got up and left the room during the video.
Another great video guys, but why does kaiser willhelm get the blame for ww1. Why not Franz-Joseph who made the decision to invade Serbia or Tsar Nicholas II who decided to go to war with Austria over the Serbia thing, thereby goading Germany into declaring war the day before the Russian invasion was to begin. There's plenty of blame to go around for ww1. Almost every country involved (with the exceptions of Iran, Greece and even Belgium, to a certain degree)did so of their own volition.
Most confusing war to explain.
Horrible histories do a fantastic skit on the explanation. 😊
No-one punches Blinkinsop
That thumbnail. I feel so manipulated.............. *deep breath .....I liked it🤭
id love to hear more about the world war 2 cats, cant seem to find anything online
Gavrilo Princip was not Yugoslavian. Yugoslavia did not exist at the time.
Gavrilo Princip was a Bosnian Serb.
Are little people not allowed to play baseball? That I would actually watch
I just watched 7 Simon vids in a row (I know, that's a lot) and he said the phrase "stranger than fiction" in every. single. one. of. them.
Simons beard is getting so long lol
The barber shops are closed.
great as always simon :)
Funny you mention "higher than a Georgia pine"...that's EXACTLY how Dock described himself in an interview.
I think Cats in Warfare would make an excellent RUclips channel. Cute fuzzy kittens just blown up at random times. It would truly be something for everyone!
Serbian nationalist. Not Yugoslavia nationalist. That doesn't even make sense . Lol
name would have been "glyndwr", a Welsh national hero. pronounced glin duur.
My dad, who was just a kid at the time, attended that STL Browns baseball game . He still talks about it. When we asked him why they put a dwarf in the game, he said "you can't pitch to a dwarf".
Don't know weather to give this video a thumbs up vote or thumbs down? 👍🤷♂️👎
Around 13:29 "...at a time when athletes were discouraged from voicing their opinion". This makes it sound like there is a time where athletes were being encouraged to voice their opinions. If that's true then I'd like to know when that time was.
2 yrs ago when Simon's SW neon still worked! 🤣🤷🏽♀️
I sat this all the time! "Truth is Stranger than Fiction" ... everybody loves Simon!
Gene Lebell. look it up Simon...did u just eat some peanut butter or something?
Interaction.
You guys should check out his other chan Business Blaze; now THAT one is funny!!!
Hell yea. I love his channels.
Yes. Seriously. Ba-da-dum-TISHHH!
"Mincemeat swallowed whole."
Oh no he did not just deadass use the word “PEEPS”!! 🤣💀
Greenies! I haven't seen or heard of those in decades!
Pitched a no hitter on acid... i couldnt successfully purchase a big gulp from the convenience store. Just said "Urp" and ran the hell out, soda still on the counter.
Thats hilarious!!!! I haven't tripped in 30 years, but the stories are still great! Be safe, and thankyou for the laugh!
You are missing two
"Raging gonorrhea" I don't want to know how one gets that
It makes me wonder, though...
Charles Manson Monkees band member??
Fed cats won’t hunt!🐈⬛
Here to SHOW LOVE TO TOP TENZ
Royal succession, not secession.
Yeaaaa... If you could come in Saturday and do the midget alien story SIMON! That would be great...
So the butler did NOT do it!
*BRITISH* royal *secession?* Sounds weird. How about *Irish* secession, which in Victoria's time would have been a godsend.
I have a letter from Bob Swift the catcher behind the plate when Eddie Gaedel was at bat. The letter is in response to a young boys Autograph request. I bought a few years back for $15 pretty cool piece of a strange event in Baseball history.
Higher than a Georgia Pine
It says on Google that Simon is worth a million to 5 million. You made a million dollars making RUclips videos holyshit
YO SHOUT OUTTTTT
Serbian nationalist, Simon, not Yugoslavian. Tool of Black Hand
Larry Doby....Dough-bee. Some time ago I extended an invitation, for you to visit Cleveland......never mind. Bill Veeck's autobiography:"Veeck as in Wreck"
Simon you are awesome! Love listening to many of your genres of videos.
To "treat [Charlie's]raging gonorrhea!" 🤮🤮🤮
Stephen King vs. Steven Hawking; case closed!
Operation Mincemeat is one of my favourite stories from WW2
Fitting, considering it's almost Victoria Day.
Veck as in Wreck (His biography)
Ha ha. Simon had to talk about baseball twice!
When Bill Veeck later owned the White Sox, he once had all the players wear shorts.
Playing professional baseball.
Let THAT sink in.
sliding into a base is ungentlemanly so it makes sense
Yeah you can’t pitch a game if you are on acid!
It’s funny that he even tried. 😂
Listen to it again. Or look it up. He didn't just pitch an entire game - he pitched a no-hitter on acid.
Fatty Arbuckle did it!
Anyone else wondering what the deal was with that BitCoin channel takeover crap that happened a little while back? What happened? Did TopTenz get hacked?
Yeah it did a while back only for a short time tho.
They cant talk about it yet, but Simon has promised (on Business Blaze) that it will be explained once they've been given the green light.
Interesting 👍🤔👍
Cool
My first 1st.
Nick L you want a cookie ?
@@julianbright2736 Yes. Yes I do. And they better be soft baked chocolate chip.
Channel name: TopTenz Number of things in this video: 8. 🤔
TheKalaxis Check out their other videos.
@@generalhyde007 I've been following them for over a year. Try learning sacrasm
Are seriously that oblivious? Who do you think your own ancestors were marrying?
Do you cold read from a script? Your pronunciation of some names in your videos, British accent notwithstanding (When will Brits speak English?) is often unique, if not horrendous. Eddie [GAE-del]? Seriously?
Lately you need to be renamed TopEightz. Could you really not find two more interesting stories in the whole of history to make up your name sake???