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There's a Rabbit's hole in celebrity homes..

homer

Doh!
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Hmmm...busy tunnels

https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/26877983/playboy-mansion-hid-tunnels-to-celebrity-homes/


It should come as no surprise to anyone to find the Playboy Mansion holds more than a few dark secrets.

But even the staff at the magazine that shares a named with the infamous pleasure palace did not see this one coming.
The Mansion famously features everything from swimming pools to a menagerie but until now no one knew it also hid secret passages leading to the homes of some major Hollywood A-listers.

Playboy reports one of its editors made the incredible discovery while searching through the magazine's archives.
The search turned up a series of photographs and blueprints showing the construction of the tunnels in the 1970s

“So, according [to] this blueprint, tunnels were built to the homes of “Mr. J. Nicholson,” “Mr. W. Beatty,” “Mr. K. Douglas” and “Mr. J. Caan,”” the magazine wrote.

“We’ll go ahead and assume they’re talking about Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas and James Caan – all of whom lived near the Playboy Mansion during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

"There are no dates on the architectural schematics, but the dates on the Polaroids were from 1977.”

Unsurprisingly, none of the actors responded to Playboy’s invitations to comment on the story, nor did the father of the company himself, Hugh Hefner.

According to the magazine, an interview request was quickly rebuffed by staff at the Hollywood mansion, who simply told them Mr Hefner did not wish to comment.

The magazine said an unnamed staff member confirmed the tunnels had long laid dormant after being closed in 1989; the same year Hefner married Playmate Kimberley Conrad.

Playboy is now calling for anyone who saw or used the tunnels to come forward to explain more about their hidden history.
 
Ahoy;- It makes sense to Meeeeeee,
YoU got all those Bunnies and hence large tunnels
 
Ahoy;- The bigger the tunnels, the more Bunnies you will see, and nothing breeds better than Bunnies
 
Indeed HP...them celebrities sure can do it like the bunnies do. But of course, them celebs would never acknowledge of such tunnel.
 
Ahoy very true Homer..........."The Secret Tunnels" have now been discovered.
They should run, day Tours.
 
Sounds like a furphy to me. Imagine how many bureaucratic hoops you would have to jump through to get approval for that, never mind the cost.

If any of those A-listers wanted to sneak into the mansion incognito a taxi with tinted windows or a trench-coat with the collar turned up would do the trick.
 
Sounds like a furphy to me. Imagine how many bureaucratic hoops you would have to jump through to get approval for that, never mind the cost.

If any of those A-listers wanted to sneak into the mansion incognito a taxi with tinted windows or a trench-coat with the collar turned up would do the trick.
Sounds like a furphy to me. Imagine how many bureaucratic hoops you would have to jump through to get approval for that, never mind the cost.

If any of those A-listers wanted to sneak into the mansion incognito a taxi with tinted windows or a trench-coat with the collar turned up would do the trick.






I agree Svengali its a probably a Furphy
And
as as a aside did you know there are members of the Furphy family living in the WA wheat belt ( narrogin and pingrup ) who are descend from the Furphy Family foundry who made the WW one Australian Army Water Cart's
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Furphy Water Cart

The most distinctive product to carry the Furphy brand would certainly be the water cart. The presence of the cart in military camps in Australia during the First World War led to the name of Furphy becoming an indelible part of our language. The carts were typically placed near the latrine area, the only place in the camp where soldiers were out of the controlling eye of their officers allowing them the freedon to express their thoughts on the latest news that was, at best, unreliable. Known as a "Furphy" Water carts were used extensively in Europe and the Middle East to carry water to the troops. The drivers of the carts were notorious sources of information and gossip for the men as they moved from camp to camp. As could be expected, not all their news was reliable and so it was that the word Furphy rapidly became a synonym for suspect information or rumour.
 
I agree Svengali its a probably a Furphy
And
as as a aside did you know there are members of the Furphy family living in the WA wheat belt ( narrogin and pingrup ) who are descend from the Furphy Family foundry who made the WW one Australian Army Water Cart's
wcinfo-01.jpg

Furphy Water Cart

The most distinctive product to carry the Furphy brand would certainly be the water cart. The presence of the cart in military camps in Australia during the First World War led to the name of Furphy becoming an indelible part of our language. The carts were typically placed near the latrine area, the only place in the camp where soldiers were out of the controlling eye of their officers allowing them the freedon to express their thoughts on the latest news that was, at best, unreliable. Known as a "Furphy" Water carts were used extensively in Europe and the Middle East to carry water to the troops. The drivers of the carts were notorious sources of information and gossip for the men as they moved from camp to camp. As could be expected, not all their news was reliable and so it was that the word Furphy rapidly became a synonym for suspect information or rumour.
I love information like this...How interesting!. I had never heard the word FURPHY.
 
I love information like this...How interesting!. I had never heard the word FURPHY.



And Cyclone the good news is ,



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they still make them although you pull it with a



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Farmboy is right (There had to be a first time I guess)

The Furphy water tanks were used in the field to provide water for the Diggers during WWI It is supposed the soldiers gathered around having a drink and gossiping telling tales at the Furphy tank

Many believe the term Furphy a falsehood told with the certainty of the truth Came from these gathering around the Furphy tank
 
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