A friend's father, a minor hollywood composer, used to play in a weekly poker game with some fairly major names of the era, of whom George C. Scott was arguably the most famous.

Haha! I just made one! No pic of me but it does represent my honorary degrees. All three of them.

C'mon, that's just not true. Lard comes exclusively from pork, whereas beef (or sometimes lamb) fat is rendered into tallow, and chicken fat into schmaltz.