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From: presley@mhuxj.UUCP (Joe Presley)
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Subject: Re: Bugs is gay ( I don't think so )
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 10:37:28 EDT
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 > From: smwilliams@wateng.UUCP (Steve Williams)
 > Along these same lines, did you know that Orphan Annie used to
 > be Orphan Andy until around 1940.  Apparently, the writers wanted
 > a new image and L'il Andy was given a sex change operation !

You must be talking about an Earth 2 Annie :-). 

I cannot be silent when misinformation like this is being posted.

Annie made her debut in the special pink edition of the *New York Daily
News* on August 5, 1924.  She was ANNIE from the start, even though her
creator Harold Gray almost called his character ANDY.  It was at the
suggestion of Captain Joseph Patterson, owner of the News, who suggested
that Gray "put skirts on the kid and call her Little Orphan Annie". 
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   Joe Presley (mhuxj!presley, ihnp4!j.presley)