Shmoo

:This article is about the cartoon creature. For other uses, see Shmoo (disambiguation)

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A shmoo is a fictional cartoon creature, created and first drawn by the cartoonist Al Capp in his newspaper comic strip Li'l Abner. The shmoo is shaped like a plump bowling pin with legs, but no arms.

Related Topics:
Cartoon - Al Capp - Newspaper - Comic strip - Li'l Abner

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Shmoos are delicious, and are so eager to be eaten that if they are looked at by someone who is hungry they will gladly jump into a frying pan, after which it tastes like chicken, or into a roasting pan, after which it tastes like beef.

Related Topics:
Chicken - Beef

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The frolicking of shmoos is so entertaining that people watching them feel no need to go to movies or turn on television to relieve their boredom.

Related Topics:
Movie - Television

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Because of these facts, the leaders of government and big business spend great amounts of energy trying to exterminate the shmoo as a dangerous threat to civilization as we know it.

Related Topics:
Government - Big business - Civilization

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A small colony of shmoos live in the Valley of the Shmoon near Dogpatch; some occasionally escape, causing havoc.

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