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Subject: Talk: the Shmoo
Date: 1996/04/08
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In article <4jm735$eep@miso.wwa.com>, mcsherry@bu.edu (Sean McSherry) wrote:

> On 27-Mar-96 17:33:38, Jasmine Urmeneta (jurmenet@shiva.Hunter.CUNY.EDU) said:
> 
> >Okay guys... anybody here remember the old Hanna Barbera cartoons circa
> >1980 or thereabouts--? There was this little white ghosty thingy called
> >"The Shmoo."  Well, I'd really like a picture of him to surprise my
> >friends.  Even if you can't draw him, I'd feel better if someone here at
> >least told me they know what I'm talking about so i don't feel totally
> >crazy! Thanks!
> 
> >Jasmine :P
> 
> >ps He sorta reminded me of a bowling pin with whiskers...
> 
> 
> Yes! I remember him... I used to love that character :) I hope
> someone can whip up an ascii drawing of him!
> 
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In my molecular biology textbook it says: "One consequence of the binding
of alpha-factor to its receptors on an a-cell is to cause the cell to
become polarized so that it adopts a shape known as a "shmoo" (Figure
16-64).  


And in Figure 16-64 there's a drawing of Shmoo.  The caption reads: The
polarized cells are called "shmoos," after Al Capp's famous cartoon
character (copyright 1948).


Sherwin