comic strip words revisited

[Dennis R. Preston]

I think Wilson is right; the later days of Gasoline Alley (maybe in
the 50's) were known just as Smoky Stover.

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>"Jeep" was the vocalization or cry of the jeep, an imaginary - if
>that's not redundant - creature  featured in the strip, Thimble
>Theater, now better known under the name of its featured player, the
>great Popeye, the sailor man, who was who he was and that's all that
>he was: Popeye, the sailor man, strong to the finish 'cause he ate his
>spinach, Popeye, the sailor man.
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>BTW, wasn't it the case that Smoky Stover has his own, eponymous
>strip? He was a fireman who  wore his helmet backward and he was
>always booted, though not to the hip.
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>-Wilson
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>On 12/28/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>  Today's Zippy the Pinhead (courtesy of the Washington Post), a strip
>>  called "Schluburbia" contains this exchange:
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>>  Nov shmoz ka pop?
>>  Notary sojac!
>>  Nize baby! Banana oil! Jeep!
>>  Potrzebie! Axolotl! Fershlugginer!
>>  Everything I know I learned from old comic strips...
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>>  (Some of these I recall from my old Mad Magazine subscription in the 50s.)
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>>  LH
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