Unhappy blackjack player forgot a basic principle - Tribune Review
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Unhappy blackjack player forgot a basic principle Tribune Review You know the type: Folks with an aura of doom so dark they make Li'l Abner's Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, seem as cheery as Papa Smurf. They grumble after every loss, and they whine when they win because they didn't bet enough. |
Published on Friday 3rd of February 2012 11:47:58 PM
Outtakes Around the Lakes: Men beware, Sadie Hawkins is lurking - Suburbanite
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Outtakes Around the Lakes: Men beware, Sadie Hawkins is lurking Suburbanite Some say this tradition started back in 1937 with cartoonist Al Capp, the creator of the comic strip, Li'l Abner. Every four years on Sadie Hawkins Day, the character, Daisy Mae, and the rest of her scantily clad mountain ilk would chase Li'l Abner and ... |
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The Best Webcomics - PC Magazine
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The Best Webcomics PC Magazine From the early days of Krazy Kat to the adventures of Li'l Abner to the hey-day of Calvin & Hobbes, the four-color funnies produced more household names (and beloved friends) than one could ever list: Snoopy, Garfield, Blondie, Hagar, Barney Google, ... |
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Meffert: Articles on natural world offer food for thought - San Antonio Express
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Meffert: Articles on natural world offer food for thought San Antonio Express The whale story reminded me of Al Capp's Li'l Abner comic strip in which Capp predicted that, as more people rode in their cars and walked less, they would stop walking altogether and eventually be unable to walk at all. We humans would become like his ... |
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Panther Pride: Reversing the roles- Sadie Hawkins dance returns - my.hsj.org
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Panther Pride: Reversing the roles- Sadie Hawkins dance returns my.hsj.org Sadie Hawkins got its start from the cartoon “Li'l Abner” in the 1900's. Depicted in this cartoon was Sadie Hawkins, who was the “homeliest gal in the hills”. Worried about her future without a husband, Sadie's father set up a race of all the bachelors ... |
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Rich, frisky or dumb — take your pick - Tampabay.com
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 Tampabay.com | Rich, frisky or dumb — take your pick Tampabay.com Instead, the personality the voters discovered was Li'l Abner, only without the intellectual curiosity. There is a hitch to running for president. Candidates have the pressing obligation to demonstrate a modicum of awareness at least marginally above a ... |
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Alice Ripley Leads February Master Classes in Montreal - Broadway World
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Alice Ripley Leads February Master Classes in Montreal Broadway World Previously Off-Broadway, she was seen in Five Flights with the Rattlestick Theatre Company, The Vagina Monologues at The Westside Theatre, as Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner with City Center Encores!, and as Nelly Bly in Cather County at Playwrights Horizons. |
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The Little Willies: For The Good Times - Paste Magazine
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The Little Willies: For The Good Times Paste Magazine Anything but hick music, The Little Willies bring restraint to their playing and offer elegance to what could easily be burlesqued into some kind of Li'l Abner caricature. Instead, there's the sultry ache of “Lovesick Blues,” sailing perfect two-part ... |
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Martin Luther King's Ideas Reverberate In Egypt - Here And Now
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Martin Luther King's Ideas Reverberate In Egypt Here And Now A Christian pacifist group hired one of the creators of the Li'l Abner comic strip to illustrate it–and a blacklisted comic book writer to write the text in a way that would fall inside the guidelines of American censorship rules in place at the time. |
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Reality Bites: Lizard Lick Towing - Houston Press (blog)
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Reality Bites: Lizard Lick Towing Houston Press (blog) ... only manage to escape relatively unscathed but also -- and this is important -- with the truck. Either these particular moonshiners learned everything about their trade from "Li'l Abner," or the whole thing was staged in advance and (poorly) acted out. |
Published on Friday 3rd of February 2012 11:47:58 PM
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