Re: [Phys-l] Bye

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

On 2011, Aug 26, , at 07:31, John Clement wrote:

> Maybe we should bring in the fluffy bunnies!
> "Walt Kelly was a satirist, sure, but he was also a businessman first.
> Knowing that some newspapers would refuse to run the more politically
> oriented strips, Kelly would prepare substitute strips for those editors,
> usually involving a cast of white fluffy bunnies carrying out various cute
> fluffy-bunny-type behavior. When you think about it, this was a brilliant
> move on Kelly's part. Not only did this guarantee that he wouldn't
> temporarily lose placement, and the accompanying syndicate dollars, in any
> papers, but it also served as a tipoff to attentive readers that, when the
> white bunnies showed up, maybe there was something going on in the strip
> that their local newspaper was refusing to run, and maybe they should seek
> out a competing paper."
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX


This would perhaps be the beginning of a long thread on a social science list -- the use of animals for social distance, that mixing advice w/ humor enabled the court jester, etc.  

I miss Pogo's Swamp and think, perhaps it was too political for there to be a rerun as a classic à la Peanuts.

bc  pleased; replaced by the Frenchman.