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From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Re: schmoo - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 17:54:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  7 17:54:18 1983
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Schmoos were an Al Capp creation.  They lived in the valley of schmoon,
and made wonderful eating.  You didn't have to kill them, if you looked
at them hungry-like, they'd fall over dead for the joy of feeding you.

They didn't have to be cooked, either; and they tasted like anything you
wanted them to.

Their whiskers made great toothpicks, and their eyes were perfect trouser
buttons.  There were no bones and no waste.

They also were very lovable companions, which made it very sad when one 
died for you.  However, another one would begin following you around
very soon, to console you at the loss of your pet.

The people of Dogpatch sealed off the valley of schmoon, to prevent the
city-folk from taking all the schmoos to make sausages.  The residents
of Dogpatch decided that they could do without the benevolent and
delicious company of the schmoos for the sake of the survival of the 
species.  

Its amazing what a person can find when they paw through their 
parents' library of old paperbacks.

Ariel Shattan
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