February 2012
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Shmoo
The Shmoo first appeared in the strip in August 1948. According to Shmoo legend, the lovable creature laid eggs, gave milk and died of sheer esctasy when looked at with hunger. The Shmoo loved to be eaten and tasted like any food desired. Anything that delighted people delighted a Shmoo. Fry a Shmoo and it came out chicken. Broil it and it came out steak. Shmoo eyes made terrific suspender...
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…once his father came to visit him for a heart-to-heart talk and asked, “Mitch, do you have any vision at all of what you want to be in ten years?” Slowly and with deliberation, Mitch replied, “I want to be – a consumer. I want to consume as much as I can of as many different things as I can for as long as I can.”
I was lying in the sea
A big wave came
I moved to the shore
Big fish turned insane.
I could have been its lunch.
“ Cheers up, there are worse things happening in the world.
Not worse than a...”
– Downton Abbey