At 03:15 AM 7/13/02, you wrote:
>--- Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> > At 06:44 PM 7/12/02, Reggie Bautista wrote:
> >
> > >>- What color does a smurf's face turn if you
> > strangle it?
> > >
> > >1) Purple. Trust me.
> > >2) (my wife's answer) Is that before or after it
> > starts to decompose?
> >
> >
> >
> > Went to a con several years ago when the Smurfs were
> > more . . . well, if
> > not "popular", at least better known. One of the
> > other attendees came in a
> > typical barbarian costume with club and sword with a
> > bunch of de-stuffed
> > Smurf dolls hanging from his belt, and calling
> > himself "Stomper
> > Smurfsbane". He was applauded wherever he went . .
> > .
> >
>
>Huge LOL! (Not too mention nearly snorking my uvula
>into my sinuses...good thing I wasn't drinking a soda
>at the time!)
>
>Back in the day when I was active in the SCA (Society
>for Creative Anachronism), that fellow would probably
>have been knighted on the spot, for providing such a
>valuable service to the Kingdom...
I think he already had been.
It was an more-or-less open secret at the time that parts of "Return of the
Jedi" were filmed in Arizona under the cover name "Blue Harvest." The name
suggested to some of us the image of a combined harvester mowing down
Smurfs by the hundred . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two
words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't
it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated
from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
