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From: walsh@ihuxi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: The CPK Caper
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 14:59:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 14:59:47 1983
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I like this description of the Cabbage Patch Kid (Arrggh) from Bill Stokes'
column in the Chicago Tribune:

The Cabbage Patch Kid, as you know, is a kind of dumb-looking, beady-eyed,
soft doll that somewhat resembles Miss Piggy. It has a big head, flat,
stubby nose and a lipless mouth that is puckered inward. It has no chin,
and its short little arms reach out in a gesture of abject helplessness.
  In short, Virginia, it looks a lot like all the new babies you see, and
when Santa saw it, he snickered and said, "Ho, ho, ho. The Cabbage Patch
Kid looks like a potato with feet. Better not stock too many of them."

 (From "Yes, Virginia, there IS - but Santa doesn't have any")

So, THAT explains it!

B. Walsh