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Polygraph and CVSA Forums => Polygraph Policy => Topic started by: George W. Maschke on Sep 18, 2008, 08:51 AM

Title: Groucho Marx versus the Lie Detector
Post by: George W. Maschke on Sep 18, 2008, 08:51 AM
Long-time polygraph examiner Chris Gugas (https://antipolygraph.org/blog/?p=169), who died last year at the age of 86, was a guest on Groucho Marx (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx)'s show, You Bet Your Life (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Bet_Your_Life), which ran from 1950-1961. Video (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8311204370820097656&hl=en) of his appearance has recently been posted to Google Video. Although the date of the episode is not posted, Gugas mentions that he had been married 15 years; according to his obituary (http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-gugas15nov15,0,929145.story?coll=la-home-obituaries) in the Los Angeles Times, he was married in 1942, placing this video around 1957:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8311204370820097656&hl=en
Title: Re: Groucho Marx versus the Lie Detector
Post by: T.M. Cullen on Sep 18, 2008, 02:28 PM
I must say that polygrapher seemed like a pretty affable guy.  Certainly not the type that would turn a gal's arm purple.  I seriously doubt he is the type that would falsely accuse people of school vandalism.

TC
Title: Re: Groucho Marx versus the Lie Detector
Post by: notguilty1 on Sep 18, 2008, 07:23 PM
I'm still laughing at that. Groucho was a comic genius!
However the video only goes to prove that the machine does not detect lies just responses to a stimuli that can be from anything ( even a girl!!)