Re: Whoopi Airs Fever Dream On Live TV, Says Musk And Vance Could Be Plotting Hostile Takeover

On 2025-01-02 21:41:53 +0000, The Horny Goat said:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 10:13:39 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
wrote:

 She wasnâ€'t when she had her own one on one interview show all those many
years ago. She was quite engaging.

 She renamed herself after a joke fart cushion (according to her) ...
there really wasn't ever any intelligence there at all.

 If your story is right it figures...

Her real name is Caryn Johnson. Apparently during her early stage career she used to fart a lot, so she started using the stage name "Whoopi Cushión" for a while, but then changed it to Whoopi Goldberg.
<https://www.nbcnewyork.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/whoopi-goldberg-shares-cheeky-story-behind-her-stage-name/5607540/> <https://playbill.com/article/whoopi-tells-how-she-got-her-name-com-329074>
    She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken
    from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage,
    you never really have time to go into the bathroom and
    close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you've got to
    let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a
    whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from.0
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg>