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Re: Disgusting thread... ;-)

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Thursday, November 4, 2004, 19:40
Speak, Memory....

A long time ago, the cartoonist Al Capp had a sequence in his Li'l Abner
comic strip involving a new, not-yet-seen character who had a "disgusting
habit". It went on for a couple weeks, with as much double-entendre
speculation as he could get away with in those days. Finally the character
appeared, and turned out to be wearing an outlandish and shabby riding
(fox-hunting type) "habit".

Another two-week or so sequence featured great concern about some product or
other that was "poison". It turned out to be imported canned "poisson".