famous people and the jobs they had before they were famous people...

- Confucius was a corn inspector. (you've seen one ear...)

- Yogi Berra worked in a shoe factory. (seeing another pair of shoes must be like dejavu all over again for him...)

- William Howard Taft was a tax collector for the IRS. (then he went on to become the fattest ever president!)

- Harry S. Truman was a farmer (“The buckwheat stops here?”)

- Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop (whoa..)

- Julia Roberts worked in a mall ice cream store (I had thoughts about hot fudge but I must digress...)

- Joe DiMaggio peeled oranges in a juice plant. (Funny, I always thought “Joltin’ Joe” was an electrician.)

- Clint Eastwood was a lifeguard (feeling lucky...punk?)

- W.C. Fields played a drowning victim to attract crowds to a boardwalk movie emporium. (too bad Clint wasnt there...)

- Johnny Depp sold pens by phone (ever wonder why the ends were cut off? And dialing with those hands must have been difficult...)

- Steve McQueen drove a cab (hopefully not off of an upper level of a parking garage...)

- Jerry Seinfeld was a paperboy. (with a Superman mask with the rubber strap busted screaming WAIT FOR ME!!)

- Billy the Kid worked in his mother's laundry (talk about holey socks...thems bullet holes)

- Jack Nicholson worked in a toy store (He still does, don’t you think?)

- Barbra Streisand was a waitress at a Chinese restaurant (and Steven Sondheim was the bartender/arranger...)

- Paul Newman was a sandwich-boy at Danny Budin's Corned Beef Palace. (Bet he didn’t give his salary to charity back then.)

And finally…

- Johnny Carson was a magician. (and after so many years on the national stage, he ultimately made himself disappear.)