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‘Brady Bunch’ Mom Florence Henderson’s Wholesome Image Will Never Be the Same

Posted on | June 27, 2011 | 21 Comments

From the “TMI” files:

Florence Henderson, the actress who played perky mom Carol Brady in the beloved family sitcom, says she once got crabs after a one-night-stand with career politician John Lindsay, who was the mayor of New York City at the time.
Henderson, now 77, recounts in her upcoming memoir that she was cheating on her husband during the 1960s . . .
“I was lonely. I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do. So, what did I do? I did it,” she writes in “Life is Not a Stage,” set for publication in September.
Henderson went home later that night, and awoke to a grisly surprise the next day as she saw “little black things” crawling over her bed and body.
An urgent call to a doctor took care of the problem, known medically as pubic lice, and Lindsay sent her flowers and a note of apology.
“Guess I learned the hard way that crabs do not discriminate but cross over all socioeconomic strata,” Henderson writes. . . .

Hat-tip: Instapundit.

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  • Michaelsimitz

    Lindsay screwed Mrs. Brady like he screwed NYC.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    BRAIN BLEACH – STAT!

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    What a nasty ass piece of work John Lindsay must have been. He must have either screwed some scuzzy skank within a 24 hour period of Henderson, or he knew he was giving her crabs and just didn’t give a crap. I wonder how many other women he gave them to, maybe even his wife. Of course with this bunch there’s always a chance he could have caught them from his wife, but I doubt that. And this guy toyed with running for president in 1972. Now wouldn’t that have been a hell of an inauguration? Piece of shit!

  • Joe

    Gross, but you can consider them pets you did not want. 

    Seriously, she is lucky she did not catch what Mr. Brady got. 

  • Joe

    Yes.  Yes indeed. 

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    I never heard that about that Lindsay, just the other one.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    They certainly would have had to accommodate more ‘guests’.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Just imagine that on film. “I do solemnly swear” (starts visibly tightening at the waist and grimacing) “to the best of my ability” (stops, clears throat, looks around nervously) “to faithfully execute” (stops against, closes eye, lets out a deep breath) “GOD DAMN THIS! (Starts furiously grabbing and rubbing at crotch) “SO HELP ME GOD!”

  • mojo

    Ok, Florence – did NOT need to know that.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Sick puppy.

  • http://twitter.com/FilmLadd Ladd Ehlinger Jr.

    I guess she had a Brady Bunch… in her pants!

  • Joe

    Alice must have been completely grossed out doing the Brady’s laundry and sheets.  She should have been wearing a bio hazard suit. 

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    You know come to think of it I seem to remember Greg Brady acting really uncomfortable on a couple of shows, like he might have been fighting a really uncomfortable itch. Does anybody remember the show I’m talking about. I sure don’t HaHa Psssyyych!

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    That, Sir Ladd, is the line of the day!

    Quick: get the rights to the book!

  • http://www.haemet.blogivists.com Roxeanne de Luca

    While that is definitely TMI, it’s good, in some ways – people always act as if STDs are hypothetical, or happen to “someone else”, or what-have-you.  That someone says, “I slept with a married person and got a STD” at least brings home what is basic common sense: sleeping with promiscuous people can result in nasty diseases. 

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