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Dogpatch
Here’s an interesting note from Thursday’s Writer’s Almanac (I’m slow):
It’s the birthday of cartoonist Al Capp, born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, Connecticut (1909). He created the cartoon strip Li’l Abner, about a hillbilly named Abner Yokum who lived in the fictional town of Dogpatch, Kentucky. The strip ran from 1934 to 1977.
Who knew?
I sure didn’t. I read L’il Abner religiously as a child — I didn’t get the jokes, but it was on the funny page so I read it — and I never did know that Dogpatch was supposed to be in Kentucky.
I thought it was in some hillbilly place.
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2 Comments
1. Helen Losse replies at 30th September 2006, 10:48 am :
Sherry, this one made me laugh out loud!
2. sherry replies at 30th September 2006, 12:32 pm :
Thanks, Helen.
I used to really love Moonbeam McSwine — I guess I was a rebel from the start.
I went over to that Li’l Abner page and can’t find a thing that says Dogpatch was any particular place. I guess we know, now, what Mr. Keillor thinks of Kentucky.
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