![]() ![]() Vi) I don't have the first clue what this one even means, but Noah Diamond recently unearthed it, so let's add it for completeness: when dealing cards he adopted a rapid spin that dropped the card in front of each player "like a golf ball falling dead to the pin." How we get from here to 'Zeppo' is up to you. According to Wikipedia, this was Zeppo's own contribution to the seething whirlpool: I've not seen it cited anywhere else. V) 'Zep' is Italian-American slang for 'baby' Herbert was called this because he was the youngest. Iv) It was inspired by a freak show pinhead called Zip, who shared Herbert's 45-degree forehead. ![]() Iii) It was inspired by a performing chimp called Mr Zippo, who shared Herbert's penchant for acrobatics. Herbert would say, "Hiya, Zeke", and Gummo would reply, "Hiya, Zeb." Ii) It originated when they were pretending to be rustics during their brief experiment in farming. I) There were zeppelins flying overhead when he was born. (This is a sentence for Arthur Sullivan to set to music if ever there was one.) The first mystery is the sheer multiplicity of offered possibilities. We know the meaning and origins of the other four Brothers' names, more or less, but Zeppo's, for some reason, is mired in confusion, doubt and disagreement. It's odd, isn't it, that nobody seems all that sure why Herbert called himself Zeppo when he joined the Marx Brothers?
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