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Mister Ed was a female Zebra


www.snopes.com/lost/mistered.asp

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That truly is one of my favorite and most creative of the "Lost Legends" at Snopes. It is hilarious, especially when you click on the color picture of the zebra to see "her" in B&W.

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I hope you know that that is not true.

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Never mind the part where in the "explanation" snopes goes on to detail why they didn't broadcast NFL games in the B&W days:

"The difficulty in resolving closely integrated black and white images on non-color television receivers was one of the primary reasons NFL games were not regularly televised until the mid-1960s, when sales of color TV sets started to outstrip those of black-and-white models. When black-and-white television predominated in the nation's living rooms, football games were too often disrupted when players ran into the referees, whose black-and-white striped uniform tops made them nearly invisible to onlookers."

The "fact" that people watching TV wouldn't be able to discern the black and white stripes of the referees wouldn't have a damn thing to do with the players ON THE FIELD being able to see them.

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...and Wilbur was played by a large black woman made to look like a small white guy.

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Now that's funny. Wilbur actually a large black woman!!! Anyone who would believe that picture on SNOPES is just blind or missing a few screws and anyone who would post that picture and think that would work is just lazy. They could've done better than that!!!

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In all fairness to snopes.com, the "Mr. Ed was a Zebra" page has a "More about this page" link at the bottom which takes you here: http://www.snopes.com/lost/false.htm - a page that acknowledges the bogus status of the Zebra story and discusses the dangers of using a single Internet source for your information.

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I don't get it. The site says it's false, but then goes on to explain how a Zebra was used on the tv show. Black and white TV, Zebra, whatever. I know what a horse looks like and Mister Ed was a horse. That site is somewhat confusing regarding this myth. I stopped reading that site when it starting talking about how a zebra is somewhat smaller than a horse, so they had to make a smaller scale stable to match the original stable for the original horse.

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that solves the talking question ...everyone knows how articulate female zebras are..... the big problem was getting rid of the british accent and as we all know female zebras lisp

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