A new word?

[Wilson Gray]

That's right! I remember that backwards fireman's hat, too.

-Wilson

On 8/18/06, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> >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
> >[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 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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