"Ima Hogg" redux

[Wilson Gray]

Way back when, there was a comic-strip character named "Big
Barnsmell." He was an employee of the "Skonk[sic] Works." Who'd-a
thunk that "Rarnsmell" was an actual surname?!

On 5/31/07, Paul Johnson <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:
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> I went to a country school for a while and we had a Bernard Barnsmell!
> He was an excellent fighter.
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