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...Btfsplk" [TIME, Oct. 18]. What...
...give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like an earthquake, always happened to disrupt things. But as Li'l Abner said "Ah Do" and heard the awful words, ". . . man an' wife," he suddenly realized that nothing had happened...
Screamed Li'l Abner: "Joe!! Yo' has failed me!! Ah was shore somethin' would happen-somethin' awful!!" Croaked Btfsplk: "It (sob!) DID!!" Had the unthinkable really happened? Sadistic Cartoonist Al Capp left his readers to bite their nails over that for another week...