for Shep fans

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"Excelsior, you fathead!"

One of radio god Jean Shepherd's verbal tchotchkes was the "brass figligee with oak-leaf clusters" (spelling taken from a book about him). I've never heard anyone say where that came from. And now I don't have to, because I saw. This Smokey Stover Sunday page not only has, in the last panel, the words "phippled figliggies," but has an arrow going from those words to some small, enigmatic objects that must just be figliggies. Phippled, no less.

This ought to get me that Pulitzer.

edited for metallurgic reasons
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Comments

[meggins.livejournal.com]

Smokey Stover. Oh my, wasn't that a blast from the past. At least for me. I can't recall the last time I'd seen that comic before today. I can say, looking at it now, that I probably missed most of the humor (puns) in it when I was a child.