Celebrity Birthday of the Day

So my original plan was to break this thing up. After all, more happens everyday than just the birthdays of obscurely famous people. For instance, it's Canary Islands Day in, you guessed it, the Canary Islands. It's also the 155th anniversary of the Kansas/Nebraska Act, the passing of which helped usher in that most hilarious of all American chapters, the Civil War. 

But no. We won't have any of that today. And in fact, I'm even going to repeat myself a bit. Why? Because today is the birthday of another voice actor, the best and most famous of them all, the "man of a thousand voices." 

Mel Blanc. 

As a huge fan of Looney Tunes, I am, of course, a huge fan of Blanc's. Here he is on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, doing a few of his famous voices. 

It's particularly odd watching him do the goldfish, given that with those huge googly eyes and perfectly round head, he almost looks like a goldfish. Anyhow, the man did more than 400 voices in more than 5,000 cartoons. And by the looks of it, some medical student appears to have been interested enough in how he did it to peer down the man's throat with a camera. The result: 

Creepy. Anyhow, no snarky remarks. I love Mel Blanc. What a joy it must have been to have so pure and clear a purpose and life.