Word: dogpatchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dogpatch, U.S.A. has jumped from the comic strips to the stage. Luckily Dogpatch loses little of its good-natured fun in the transition, even if the world of Li'l Abner becomes a bit more finite and less imaginative...
...story begins in Dogpatch, where residents are threatened with eviction from their ancestral homes to make way for a nuclear testing ground. Dogpatchers, led by Mammy Yokum, decide to market their own alcoholic distillate, which will make them indispensable to the nation. Their product becomes a security matter and involves the mercenary interests of General Bullmoose. Only Mammy's triple whammy and a herd of relatives save Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae from disastrous marriages and actually end an egregiously complicated story...
...queen. Society reacted with murmurs of pleasure and squeals of outrage. Just about 50% of Athlyn's 2,000 sent in their ballots. Day after day, the News breathlessly reported the latest tabulations. Thirty-five of Chicago's hostesses were nominated, and even Mammy Yokum, of Dogpatch, received six votes. The old Chicago wheat-pit spirit raised its head. Laughed International Harvester Director Chauncey McCormick: "I've been offering a dollar apiece for votes for my wife, but I heard Ed Cudahy is offering $1.25, so I'm upping my offer...
When Cartoonist Al Capp began introducing his readers to LIME-"the magazine with a flavor"-we asked Capp to tell us a little more about the new publication and how it got its name. In the words of the characters who populate his improbable county of Dogpatch (not to be confused with those who live in his even less probable country of Lower Slobbovia), he assured us: "It warn't no accident...
...Wholesome Note. After 18 years, Capp has finally bowed to true love because he has become worried over the heavy load of satire his strip carries. Readers have begun to complain that it is "un-American," and he thinks a marriage, even a $1.35 (new inflation price) Dogpatch one, will introduce a wholesome note. Says Capp: "When I kidded advertising, people wrote, 'Don't you know advertising is the backbone of America?' This attitude made me uneasy about kidding America . . . The only thing for me to do seemed to be to change completely, hoping that in another...