"Fill us in". There's a joke there somewhere... There's an urban myth out there that Richard Gere once had to go to the hospital to have a certain small rodent removed from a certain part of his body.
Oh, well. From snopes.com: Like similar legends such as The Promiscuous Rock Star, this tale has been applied to various public figures who are known or believed to be homosexual, and it has stuck with one in particular: Richard Gere. Although the legend homed in on various targets when it first appeared (including a Philadelphia newscaster), it has clung tenaciously to Mr. Gere's name since at least the mid-1980s. Rumors that he had an emergency "gerbilectomy" at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in California have spread far and wide, and countless doctors and nurses claim to have participated in, been on hand during, or heard from a reliable colleague about, the procedure. (Cedars-Sinai is apparently the best-staffed hospital in the world, since several hundred different doctors and nurses were reportedly on duty at the time Mr. Gere was allegedly brought in for treatment.) The rumor's spread was aided by an anonymous prankster who, not long after the film Pretty Woman led to a tremendous increase in Gere's popularity, flooded fax machines in Hollywood with a phony "press release" purportedly issued by the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, claiming that Gere had "abused" a gerbil. But, as a reporter from The National Enquirer found when he attempted to track down the gerbil story, there were no facts to be had.
This is, albeit unintentionally, the funniest thing Ive seen posted here in a long time. Way to go PG!
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa091797.htm I don't remember how Richard Gere got the reputation for "gerbilling".
That thing looks like it'll be a gopher someday, sure to be causing havock at your local golf course. "I'm all right, don't nobody worry bout me"
