Word: pogo
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With 1952 an election year, a cartoonist named Walt Kelly created a character named Pogo and offered his creation as a candidate for President of the United States...
...Pogo was a hit on campus. Thousands of “I GO POGO” buttons had been distributed around the Yard as part of an active campaign by students and faculty. One student had converted his dorm room into Pogo’s Harvard campaign headquarters...
Students were so riled up by the presence of the man behind Pogo that a three-hour melee ensued in Harvard Square...
...story of what came to be known as the “Pogo riots” made headlines in the Boston Herald...
...Comedy Central fratfest The Man Show, has not yet figured out the format of his new program, which will follow Nightline, but chances are it won't include one Man Show staple: underattired women jumping on trampolines. "Barbara Walters refused to go on a trampoline, so I suggested a pogo stick," he says. This should finally push Ted Koppel over the edge...