More Al Capp Contributions to American Culture

[Wilson Gray]

"What's Good For General Bullmoose Is Good For The U.S.A.!"

But Capp specified in the strip that the setting was the mythical
hamlet of Dogpatch, Kentucky.

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Carter Rila <elcutachero at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I don't know how many of you are aware of a multi-volume encyclopedia publi=
> shed about 1946 with aritcles written by knowledgable specialists. The arti=
> cle on the Comic strip was written by=A0 Al Capp himself.=20
> In Lil' Abner the location can be deduced by the recurring gags about kicka=
> poo joy juice, the Kickapoos once lived on the coast land of the Big Thicke=
> t country in East Texas. Some say they were the Indians that Sam Houston st=
> ayed with when he "went native" for a few years.
> Lower Slobbovia is in the Balkans in the Albania-Macedonia highlands.
> The most famous references are to Daisy May, Abner's companera.=20
> First is to a low-crowned hat made of blue denim worn for fatigue duty by s=
> oldier's prior to 1941.=20
> The most widely used for many yeara meaning of Daisy Mays, was for the chop=
> ped off at crotch blue denim jeans.=20
> Now, since the rowdy Dukes of Hazzard TV series of the eighties, they are k=
> nown as Daisy Dukes.=A0 Notorious for showing almost as much cheek as a tan=
> k suit, they were featured on Jessica Simpson most recently.
> =A0
> Charles Franklin Carter
> =A0
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