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8 Famous Stutterers

mentalfloss.com — I was tempted to lead off with Porky Pig, but after Joe Biden’s public confession last week during the Democratic National Convention, it seemed timelier to kick off the list with him.

Who dugg this? Made popular Sep 3, 2008

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  • ScottMcIntyre, on 09/02/2008, -1/+17Dugg, I say, Dugg!
  • oldcrows40, on 09/02/2008, -1/+15T-Te-Te-TODAY JOUNIAH!!!
  • ChemMon, on 09/02/2008, -0/+14So all I have to do is speak like Marilyn Monroe or James Earl Jones?!

    Damnit!! 10 years of speech pathological LIES!!
  • fluidfoundation, on 09/03/2008, -0/+12Do you have any B Batteries?
  • inactive, on 09/02/2008, -0/+12Stuttering John couldn't make this list? He has "stuttering" in his name. Honor his sacrifice!
  • zeptobyte, on 09/03/2008, -0/+12Missing the Scatman.
  • benroy, on 09/03/2008, -0/+11I must say, this list hits close to home.
    I have spoke with a stutter (or stammer if you're British) since I was able to speak at all.
    Even though it irritates the ever-loving ***** out of myself, my friends say that they don't even notice it after a while.
    The worst part is that when I have a funny quip or joke, it can *dramatically* throw off the timing of the remark.
    But strangely when I sing, do a fake accent or when I'm arguing with someone, it tends to go away.
    Sometimes I hate my brain.
  • THEMACGOD, on 09/02/2008, -0/+11They forgot Bruce Willis.


    No one puts McClane in the corner.
  • inactive, on 09/02/2008, -0/+9I stutter a little :'(
  • GovernmentsGun, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8I've stuttered since I was 13. Sometimes it hardly affects me, sometimes it's horrible.

    What really irritates me though is that every time I tell someone that I do stutter, they say "Oh, don't worry about it; I do too." Come on people, does everyone believe they stutter because they trip over the occasional word?
  • ferrell, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7No Alan Turing?

    He was a lifelong stutterer.
  • a3r0, on 09/03/2008, -0/+7What about the Scatman? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpHLEm9-0bg
  • inactive, on 09/02/2008, -0/+6And Mel Tillis of course...who stuttered when it talked but not when singing.
  • inactive, on 09/02/2008, -1/+7Th-th-th-that's all folks!
  • 2h3px, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5Where's my mans J-J-J-J JIMMY!!!!!!!?
  • fluidfoundation, on 09/03/2008, -0/+4Nice girl, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.
  • Kylde, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3yeah but he's not famous :)
  • solld3th, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3ladies..
  • unitedkronos, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Even in England he's not famous. :)
  • unitedkronos, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Who wants to remember it? :)
  • Recoil, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3Pfff... I ain't digging this 'til Scatman is added to the list. For shame, mentalfloss.com
  • spazmotron, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3How could they leave out Stuttering John Melendez?!
  • Br0wn, on 09/03/2008, -0/+3stuttering John [Melendez]
    http://lastheplace.com/images/article-images/1A_20 ...
  • jkoby, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Wow look at all the douche-bags you guys enjoy dancing in front of people in wheelchair's too?
  • aps234, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Woody Allen should be on this list.
  • richpav, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2I ***** ye not: I speak Spanish and Japanese fluently--and I've been living in Japan for the past 18 years---but I stutter quite a bit in both languages. In English I'm fine now, but when I was in elementary and junior high school I stuttered bad enough to be taken out of class to work with speech therapists. I'm just glad neither of my children have the same affliction.
  • rpeters, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2I used to have a really bad stutter. Now I just have a little stammer, where I pause for like a second. I became good at hiding it better and usually can't tell, but it still bugs the hell outta me.

    Glad to see I'm not alone!
  • MrDoug, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2So what you are telling me is that "Nooooo!" could have been "n-n-n-n-Nooooo!" ?
  • backseatdog, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2i can't believe no one mentioned Timmy from South Park yet.
  • kiiwii, on 09/03/2008, -0/+2Or John the Stutterer.

    I-I-I-I-I-I-I....
  • pbdyhcky189, on 09/03/2008, -2/+4Did I stutter?!
  • inactive, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1I wonder that they missed Jack Welch who was the best CEO of the last century.
  • BowieX, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Not only that, he was recently turned away from a family gathering.
  • louiebaur, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2No I didnt catch that didddd you say dug?
  • badwithcomputer, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2Stuttering Stanley! Stuttering Stanley!
  • qwertydvorak, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDRs-E7koas
  • bigpeeler, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Ken P-p-p-pile anyone?
  • Sfenton, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Eddie the Echo.

    May you burn in hell.
  • Albumen, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1I will digg you 'cause your heart's in the right place. Actually its Jimmy Volmer who stutters. Timmy just says "Timmeh" for every word.
  • YoctoYotta, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Biden has mentioned his stuttering issues in the past. Here, for example, is a CS Monitor article from a year ago (second page, second paragraph)

    http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0827/p01s07-uspo.htm ...
  • waydee, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1I stuttered up until I was about 14 if I remember correctly and now it has completely disappeared. It seems most people manage to either grow out of it or get a good control of it, as far as I've noticed anyway.
  • VeryBoredNow, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Beee bapapa parra po! pa pa parra po!

    If it wasn't for the chinese and their scat movies this guy would have been huge. I mean just imagine the type of crap (no pun intended) you get when you google his name...
  • baldbean, on 09/03/2008, -1/+2I stutter, but ***** it. This one guy at my high school made fun of me all the time. He would be like "Why are you in honor classes? You can't even t-t-talk." I eventually ended up being his girl friends lab partner, then her study partner, then I fu-fu-***** the ***** out of her pookie, and she liked it!. It was awesome cuz when she came, she kind of stuttered. LOL. The next day at school he was up to his old tricks. "Say clock. Say cloud..." I got pissed off and said, " Your girl has a stuttering problem too bitch. "Oh g-g-god... I-I'm cu-cumming...!". The look on his face was priceless.
  • riptor666, on 09/04/2008, -0/+1I always wondered why Darth Vader had to take so many breaths.
  • rpeters, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1"Wendy, Stan says you're a cont....a c-c-ccont....a CONT....a continuing source of inspiration"
  • loopyloopy, on 09/03/2008, -0/+1Vader: "I am your fffffff ffffffff fffffffff ........."

    thank god he sorted it out
  • maxjames007, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1Interesting, I think Gareth Gates (X Factor runner up) is also one.

    J
  • zewm, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1Dugg for Billy Madison reference.
  • callawayeddie, on 09/03/2008, -1/+1Hugh Grant, John Stossel......George W. Bush (closet case)
  • erolb, on 09/04/2008, -0/+0Rowan Atkinson who plays Mr Bean and Blackadder had a shocking stammer. His trademark over emphasis of the letter B was actually him trying to control his stutter when pronouncing the letter.

    Example... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_SloL3gdsM
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