Mr Whipple in a fight?

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Mass. man to be charged with toilet paper assault

Oct 15, 10:09 AM (ET)

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) - A Massachusetts man is facing an assault charge for allegedly hitting a town hall custodian on the back of the head with a roll of toilet paper because he was angry the cleaning man was whistling while he worked.
Framingham police say 55-year-old Allen Kerner was in town hall Wednesday using the bathroom. The custodian, who didn't realize anyone was in the restroom, whistled as he replenished toilet paper rolls.
The custodian told police he was in a stall when he was struck. Kerner yelled at him about whistling and fled. The custodian pursued him, and Kerner was apprehended by police outside.
Police tell The MetroWest Daily News that Kerner will be summoned to court to face an assault and battery charge. A phone number for Kerner could not immediately be located.
 
Playing this role allowed Wilson the luxury of working only 12 days per year, while earning an annual salary of $300,000 between 1964 and 1985.
 
Mr. Whipple's name was borrowed from George Carroll Whipple, Jr. a public relations executive at Benton and Bowles, the advertising agency that created the ad.
 
The real Mr. Whipple was paid one dollar for use of his name for a commercial that was to run for six months on the west coast. It became the longest running ad campaign in the history of television.
 
Mythbuster Adam Savage starred in one commercial as a stockboy named Jimmy, trying to keep the store's leaky roof from getting the Charmin wet.
 
According to a 1970s survey, "Mr. Whipple" topped then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter as the most recognizable face in North America.
 
In the late 1980s or 1990s, A&W had commercials featuring known television icons. The ads feature a filming of the commercial with the actors messing up the shots with an irate director through voice-over. In one commercial, the director instructs the actor to pick up a can of root beer or cream soda in close-up range; each shot is ruined when the actor kept squeezing the can and making a mess. When the director asks the actor why he keeps squeezing the can, the camera pulls up and reveals Dick Wilson in response, "Force of habit, I guess."
 
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