While you’ve only ever heard the story about the story had nothing to do with him. The accusation is meaningless, and whether it’s true or false is nobody’s business. I got an opinion from gerbil breeder Melissa Favata of — who was a bit more game for my questions — who offered that “Gerbils love tunneling. “It’s that feeling of them biting and scratching and rooting around that’s pleasurable to them,” Edwards says.? 4 years ago. One such case was a man she dealt with who would go to Thailand, rent young girls and insert roaches into them. Gere and the gerbil came up in Kinison’s act several times around then, meaning that it may very well have been Kinison who cemented the story into the public consciousness. No, this is just a two-year old commercial that does an amazing job at parodying the Mathis Brothers. When I was young, I wanted to be an anchorman. This was some time in the 1980′s when I first heard about it. But then my friend told me you couldn’t see the people on the other side of the TV…specifically the hot naked chicks. Mathis Brothers. The gerbil is one of the few details that have wavered about this story until Gere himself finally acknowledged it. 4:26 pm , Edwards says that she’s not personally dealt with a gerbil case, nor has she read about them, but she says that she wouldn’t be surprised if it occurs. My Account. But Stallone himself has claimed that is responsible for Stallone’s reported involvement in the lore. Iconic sex-advice columnist Dan Savage that he’d never heard of any firsthand or even secondhand account of this in real life. And perhaps even gerbils.How did gerbils become such a popular aspect of the rumor, though (especially considering Edwards says they’re probably one of the likely rodents to go up there, due to their relatively large size)? From there, a mouse, gerbil, or whatever is inserted into the tube — oftentimes with a lubricant on their snout — and a string is tied to their tail for later retrieval.

And while other rumors usually jump around from celebrity to celebrity (the way the rumor about Prince getting his ribs removed to suck his own dick eventually became a rumor about Marilyn Manson instead), this particular tale is only The story goes like this: Richard Gere once got a gerbil stuck up his ass and then had to go to the ER to get it removed. Mathis Brothers Gerbil. A video the Mathis Brothers probably don't want you to see. It gets i’ve seen someone who was joking around about this story and was fired the next day. There is an infamous ‘Gere stuck a hamster up his bum’ urban myth.”  For the entire history of this story, the rodent in question has been a gerbil — there’s even a version of the tale where the creature was Gere’s own pet named “Tibet,” but even then, it was still a gerbil. Anyway, after the jump you’ll find five men who are vying […] Everyone seems to have a cousin that was working in the ER when the guy came in. Does Anyone Know How The Oklahoma City Urban Legend About The Gerbil And The Mathis Brother Got Started? , but he and Stallone didn’t get along, so Stallone had Gere fired. So when you’re used to having that kind of thing inside you, it’s harder to get excited by just a regular old guy’s dick.” And because of that, they “graduate” to things like mice. So I guess that would be why.” That said, she adds, “I can guarantee that a gerbil won’t want to tunnel into anyone’s anus.” It may also be that “gerbil” , so attaching a gerbil to the story made it more humorous.Okay, that part is over now, I promise, so let’s get to the Richard Gere stuff. sounds like they ripped the music in this video off of the video game, SimCity. Some one got sold a bad sofa?

In the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, Homer and Ima Mathis worked as sharecroppers for a local landowner. Where did it come from? But for , there were rumors that he was gay because he gained fame early on in a Broadway production of , playing a gay Holocaust victim. By comparison, any other action just seems — and 10 points if you accurately predicted this ending — like a pain in the ass. You’re not the only one who has wondered if there is any truth behind the myth.I don’t know of whom you speak, not familiar with this particular case. Jilted ex-lover? It also has nothing to do with their salesmen stalking you as you test out recliners. If your mother says she was there, your mother is a liar. skip to main. Being a sharecropper means you plant the crop – cotton, wheat, or whatever – and share the proceeds.

To continue this aside, it should also be noted that, while gerbiling is most certainly cruel to animals, Edwards says that it’s a matter of geography that determines whether or not the act is actually . Mathis Design Studio. Another potential origin of this legend — or perhaps something that helped to popularize it — was a , his biggest movie to date in 1990. The story that a prominent local businessman had to have a gerbil removed from his rectum at an emergency room. Who would have thought Gere himself would come out of it looking so enlightened?Brian VanHooker is a writer at MEL. They will dig and burrow for hours on end. “It depends how a state defines animals,” she explains, as some states only have anti-cruelty laws for cats and dogs. Over the subsequent years, the unknown gay man became Richard Gere, and the mouse became a gerbil.” And before that gerbil permanently attached itself to Gere, it was briefly assigned to an , both of whom, like most of the gerbil breeders, declined to reply to my inquiry on this subject. Well, enter Sylvester Stallone, who — according to Sly himself — is often cited as the originator of the Richard Gere gerbil story. “Richard was given his walking papers [on ] and to this day seriously dislikes me,” Sly told back in 2006. He is the co-creator of the John O'Hurley pilot ‘The Tramp’ and co-created 'Barnum & Elwood.’ He also hosts a TMNT interview podcast.“Smart and insightful reported features about modern masculinity.”“@WeAreMel is phenomenal ... the best outlet covering digital culture today.”“I just laughed out loud for a solid five minutes.”“The rare men’s magazine that has taken upon itself to investigate masculinity, not enforce it. The rumor has endured for decades, becoming as deeply embedded in pop culture as that alleged gerbil itself.