X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,c79a2469b5afc352 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: alanp@netcom.ca (Alan Popow) Subject: Re: REQ: Shmoo Date: 1996/11/30 Message-ID: <32a09915.10585298@nntp.netcruiser>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 201493333 references: <19961127181100.NAA01140@ladder01.news.aol.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Netcom Canada x-netcom-date: Fri Nov 29 9:24:09 PM EST 1996 mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: alanp@netcom.ca newsgroups: alt.ascii-art On 27 Nov 1996 18:09:37 GMT, spunk1111@aol.com wrote: >>I think I remember someone asking for this sometime ago. But I was >>wondering if anyone has drawn Shmoo or has a Shmoo sig? > >What IS a "Shmoo"... does it hang around with Totoro? ;) Joan, you're showing your youth. Once upon a time there was a cartoonist named Al Capp who created a series called 'Lil Abner'. In the series there was a creature whose one and only aim in life was to please. The nice thing about them was that they could morph. If you wanted a turkey dinner real bad, you could count on a shmoo to become one so you could eat it - etc. Anyway, a Shmoo looks a lot like one of those legless bottom heavy punching balloons that pop back up when you knock them down. You know, sort of a round bottomed bowling pin with the face on the upper bulb. Come to think of it, if I could do a self portrait... Alan