A new word?

[sagehen]

>Wilson reminisces:
>    >>>>>
>
>Probably the late '50's, Mark. [1] I remember Smokey from the '40's. He
>was around During The War.
>
>Do you have any idea what the point of that strip was? [2] I understood
>nothing, though, clearly, the strip was memorable.
>
>NOTARY SOJAC [3] , not to mention 1506 NIX NIX. [4]
>
> <<<<<
>1.  Late 50s works. I remember writing "foo" with my finger on a
>winter-fogged window, and my grandmother's over-the-top reaction. It turned
>out she thought I was writing another word beginning with the same letter.
>... And that places it, almost certainly, late 50s.
>
>2.  No idea. Lots of weird puns and weirdness in general, which I
>appreciated without always understanding.
>
>3.  Remember that one! But it was only later that I learned what "notary
>public" meant.
>
>4. That one I don't recall.
>
>-- Mark
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Ah, yes!  What WAS it all about?  Since it may have been my reference to SS
that  brought this thread to life, I should admit that I found it pretty
opaque, too, at the time.  It was funny, madcap, a little like Mad Magazine
of later days, and with a kind of Rube Goldberg flavor to it.  Didn't
Smokey wear his fireman's hat backwards with a string tying it to his nose?
A premonition of the reversed ball caps of the '80s &
 '90s?
I think it was around even before the War.
AM

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