Word: smurfs
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...invasion has started. The announcement went out from Brussels, which became command central on Monday, directing thousands of tiny plastic Smurfs to head not only into the streets of Brussels itself but into Paris and Berlin, in a massive United Nations-approved campaign. Well, approved by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), that is. It is all part of the 50th Anniversary of the blue-skinned creatures, whose nearly all-male society has fascinated children and adults all over the world, infecting languages everywhere with the verb "to smurf" - which can mean almost anything you want. Above...
They may only be "three apples high," but the cheeky, blue-skinned Smurfs have left a giant footprint on the world since first appearing in a humble comic strip half a century ago. Since then, they have become global cartoon stars: they have appeared in video games and had theme park attractions devoted to them. In total, more than 300 million tiny plastic Smurf figurines have proliferated around the world...
...from house to house. When I found one of his other owners feeding him a pencil (“Well he sleeps in wood shavings!”) I intervened and gained full custody. I ended up giving him to a friend with a little brother, who renamed him Smurf. Good call.By the time I was a senior in high school, Zorro had grown into a fat and happy cat who spent his days sitting on my dad and watching Lady scare chipmunks in our yard. My senior spring, he died. After I rode home from the animal hospital with...
...futureworld. All fuels have been depleted in this cartoon-ageddon, and the only source of energy left is feces. To stockpile this precious element, citizens are obliged to defecate in public chambers and rewarded for their pains with Juicy Bars - poopsicles, if you will. The Diaper Gang, Smurf-like gangstas addicted to Juicy Bars, do the bidding of their Vaderesque overlord, the Diaper King, and have suicidal turf fights with the two outlaws of the title. Aachi and Ssipak's mission: to save Beautiful, the porn actress, with or without the help of the late Jimmy the Freak...
Bloggers felt blue last week after the Smurf village was bombed in a TV spot for the Belgian branch of U.N. children's agency UNICEF. The ad, meant to highlight the toll of war on children, had STEADY DIET OF NOTHING waxing philosmurfical: "It has garnered more interest than actual dead human beings. Smurfs don't get bombed every day, I guess." THE 10 OF CLUBS praised the attack, which kills Smurfette, as a "brilliant practical application of psychology" to jar today's jaded world out of complacency. And ERIK'S RAMBLINGS warned of more carnage, imagining a PETA...