Word: panglossians
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Idiot's Delight. The triple-headed chauffeur (a creature with strains of Martian blood) who transported Li'l Abner from Earth to El Passionato in a flying saucer furnished Capp with a straight man for some fine Panglossian dialectic. After taking a certain amount of triple-headed needling, Li'l Abner cries: "Yo' claims us earth-folks is in th' Idiot Era. Wal-ef we is sech IDIOTS, HOW could we whomp up [pointing earthward] a factory like THET...