Otto Titzling
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Otto Titzling is a fictional character
brassière in the 1971 satire Bust-Up: The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling by New Zealand humorist Wallace Reyburn. The character's name is a pun
on "a two-tit sling".
Following the book's publication, by Macdonald in London and by
Prentice-Hall in the USA, the hoax name has appeared in the game Trivial Pursuit (fooled by the hoax, the gamemakers listed Otto Titzling as the "correct answer" to the question of who invented the brassière), on the TV show Hollywood Squares in the late 1980s (John Davidson's first two mispronunciations of the name had to be bleeped for broadcast), in the 1984 pornographic film Intimate Couples (in which Joanna [Jacqueline Lorians] reads the Trivial Pursuit card shortly before the climactic orgy scene),[1] in the 1988 movie Beaches (featuring the song "Otto Titsling" sung by Bette Midler), and in the comic strip Luann by Greg Evans.[2]
BBC2 in 1974. The same network used Titzling in practice questions sent to prospective teams of University Challenge
.
A similar myth persists with Thomas Crapper, a plumber with an overstated reputation regarding the flushing lavatory, as fictionalized by Reyburn in Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper.
Footnotes
- ^ Fox, Scotty (director), Intimate Couples (VCX, 1984), at 1:18:30.
- ^ Evans, Greg (March 14, 1999). "Luann Comic Strip, March 14, 1999". Luann. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
External links
- False claim: The brassiere was invented by Otto Titzling (from Snopes.com)