Vivienne Eliot
The poet T.S.Eliot had a wife. Vivienne, an intelligent vivacious but very eccentric woman was carted off to the lunatic asylum because she failed to answer the following oral question correctly in her assessment by two doctors. TS Eliot and his brother in law were complicit in having her incarcerated. They both signed the committal form.Vivienne's brother admitted many years later that TS Eliot and he had done the wrong thing.He had gained financially from her incarceration. He blamed T S Eliot for pressuring him into it.
Question: There was a greasy pole 10 yards high.A little brown monkey wanted to climb it. He climbed three yards in the day but slipped back two yards at night. How many days did it take to climb the pole?
If you are unable to give an instant correct response to this question you had better hide under the bed when the van with two men in white coats arrive.
Recommended :Movie " Tom and Viv"
so sad about viv
her gift to tom got her thrown
in the loony bin
If the the old B&W photo is of her she looks really beautiful. Well if the answer is not ten it is off to the LB for me. Must see if I can get the DVD.
ReplyDeleteThe answer is not ten. That was my immediate answer too ! See you in there:)
ReplyDeleteThe answer should be seven, though the logical first answer is ten ... what a lousy husband and brother though ...
ReplyDeleteYes indeed....I would have put it a little stronger though:) I have bad news for you Georgia...the answer is not seven. Vivienne, a bright spark gave that answer and it is not correct so it looks as if you will be joining oldegg and I in the LB LOL
ReplyDeleteOh my story problems and mental math. I am DOOMED. See you in the funny farm! LOL
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