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shmoo
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shmoo
ham-shaped beast that laid eggs, provided milk, and happily gave its flesh to the hungry. [Am. Comics: Li’l Abner]


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Thats why we give them an open, fair public trial which everyone can see and hear, we are that certain they are in fact terrorists and not some farmer that some of our allies picked up for money or some other poor schmoo that might have been defending his home and/or family.
gt;>shop It's tough to beat a Schmoo toy and a Che Guevara T-shirt for the tyke.
In his 1993 novel Japanese by Spring, Ishmael Reed characterizes race relations in America with a metaphor that, significantly, draws its vehicle from the comics: It was usually the whites and the blacks who were seeking separation from each other, though any examination of American culture would show that they couldn't do without each other and that the blacks had become a sort of Schmoo of American culture, Al Capp's creature, who was an all-purpose thing.
 
 
 
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