The Top Ten Similarities and Differences Between Lon Chaney & Dick Cheney

October 31st, 2007 by Scott Marks

1. Lon Chaney has a theater named for him in Colorado Springs. The Casper, Wyoming Federal Building in named after Dick Cheney.

2. According to imdb.com, “Lon’s father was the son of James L. Chaney and wife Caroline Uffner and grandson of John Chaney (1790-1881), US Congressman, Representative from Ohio, and wife Mary Ann Lafere, and was a distant relative of Dick Cheney.”

3. Lon played a ventriloquist in The Unholy Three. Dick never moves his lips when speaking and he works with a dummy.

4. Lon Chaney appeared in over one hundred silent films. Dick Cheney had a non-speaking role as a police official in Die Hard With a Vengeance.

5. Lon Chaney is revered by legions of horror film geeks. Dick Cheney is the poster boy for rich white guys.

6. Lon Chaney was known as “The Man of A Thousand Faces!” Dick Cheney is incapable of cracking a smile.

7. Lon Chaney loved killing off bottles of booze. Dick Cheney has the same affinity for killing off soldiers.

8. Lon is mentioned in Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London. After Dick Cheney shot his friend during a quail hunt, people started singing Cheney’s Got a Gun.

9 . Lon’s son became a bloated rummy who appeared in countless Grade Z horror films. Mary Cheney is a lesbian.

10. Legend has it that Chaney was well endowed. Cheney is a big Dick.