A toymaking genius. Marx started his career in the Army during WWI, then left the military to make the world's best toys. From the early 30's to the mid 70's, Marx cranked out model trains, windup animals, and plastic dinosaurs ad infinitum.
His most famous quote is, "There is no reason for even the cheapest toys to be of poor quality."
The world needs another man like him.

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. Marx summarized his approach in the first line of chapter one of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” He believed that the roots of human misery lay in class conflict, the exploitation of workers by those who own the means of production. Social change, in the form of the overthrow of the capitalists by the workers (proletariat), was inevitable from Marx’s outlook. Although Marx did not consider himself as a sociologist, his ideas have influenced many sociologists today, especially conflict theorists.

Author of the Communist Manifesto.

to divide something evenly among people. Taken from Karl Marx.

A raging alcoholic, wannabe musician/golfer and undercover queer. Has a tendency to hang around multiple drunk females and still goes home alone. Know to take large breasted women on free vacations without engaging in any sexual activity. Uses multiples sexual references to male body parts and homosexual situations in everyday conversations. Butt Pirate. Total fag.

Noun: when someone makes or tells a joke and the joke's intended recipient does not laugh, or the joke is not funny, the joke-teller is said to have pulled a "Richard Marx."

Origin: there is a man who frequents the downtown Syracuse NY scene and who dresses like he's Richard Marx's fanclub president, from his permed hair to his leather jacket to his cowboy boots poking out of his acid-washed tapered jeans. Once when he was spotted at a bar, a waitress was asked by a patron "Hey, don't you think that guy over there looks like Richard Marx?" The waitress responded with only "He's a really nice guy" and walked away from the table. Stunned but undeterred, the patron again said to the waitress upon her return "Hey, seriously, don't you think that guy over there looks like Richard Marx?" to which she again gave only the dead-serious reply "He's a really nice guy." The patron and his friend with him were dumbfounded, and ever since, as this story has been spread, it has been becoming known as "pulling a Richard Marx" when a joke doesn't turn out the laughs it was thought it would.

Tips: when someone pulls a Richard Marx, it is best not to blurt out "You just pulled a Richard Marx!" but rather to subtly inform said offender of his failed humor attempt. Try simply saying "Good one, Richard" or softly singing "Hold on to the nights." Best yet, when you pull a Richard Marx, just call it before someone else does. Try singing "Shoulda known better" as soon as you realize you've Richard Marxed a joke attempt. This might actually redeem you from your humor failure if your company is hip to what a Richard Marx is and they laugh at you calling yourself on it!

Calling a Richard Marx can be risky if other people present are not familiar with the term. If so, you might actually end up pulling a Richard Marx also if you call it and people are confused! Think about the company present, and consider keeping it subtle, before calling a Richard Marx.

Though somewhat malicious, people have been known to deliberately cause another person to pull a Richard Marx by intentionally not laughing at their otherwise funny joke. Technically this is a Richard Marx, but it's not what the term was originally coined to have done with it.

"I Richard Marxed myself" or "He Richard Marxed himself" are never the way to express this humor failure. Simply say "I Richard Marxed" or "He Richard Marxed" if you wish to express it this way.

To place male genitals over the eyes of a sleeping person, whereas the penis lays along the bridge of the nose.