Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much as I enjoyed your reference to my favorite comic, Li'l Abner, your shallow interpretation of Old Man Mose's warning distressed me. [The warning: "Shmoos, mah boy, is th' greatest menace to hoomanity th' world has ever known...
Obviously, Old Man Mose was referring to the fact that without the challenge of environment there would be no growth of our civilization (see Arnold Toynbee). But after the progressive increase in H.C.L. . . . my household civilization seems arrested anyway, so, going along with Li'l Abner, bring on the shmoos...
...shmoo was discovered by Al Capp's Li'l Abner. When, last month, he began to hear strange music which sounded like "shmoooooooooooo!", his eager pursuit of the lilting sound was barred by an amazon of fierce and busty aspect. ("Ah sees to it," said she, "that th' shmoon don't come over th' mount'in.") Nevertheless, Li'l Abner penetrated into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, where a sage clad only in his own beard, called Old Man Mose, frantically explained the shmoo situation to the intruder. "Shmoos...
...Thass becuz they is so bad, huh?" asked Li'l Abner...
...stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good...