Posted by Karla/OR on 7/26/13 3:03am
Msg #478088
A Cartoon about Notaries
Did a closing yesterday evening for an elderly gentleman who asked if I had ever heard of "Smokey Stover." I had not.
Apparently Smokey was a daily cartoon about a notary that ran from 1935 to 1973!!!
I did a search and found an interesting article about it on Wikipedia!!!
Who knew!!!
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Reply by bagger on 7/26/13 6:49am
Msg #478090
I think Smokey Stover was a fireman.
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Reply by GOLDGIRL/CA on 7/26/13 11:17am
Msg #478116
Well, we do put out a lot of fires! n/m
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Reply by bagger on 7/26/13 11:24am
Msg #478118
And, I'm dating myself for remembering that! n/m
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Reply by Chakwaina on 7/29/13 1:37pm
Msg #478379
The artoons are online here http://www.smokey-stover.com/
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Reply by Chakwaina on 7/29/13 1:48pm
Msg #478381
Smokey Stover was a Fireman
Actually, Smokey Stover was about a fireman.
"Bill’s most popular creation was a fireman called Smokey Stover and his zany boss Chief Cash U Nutt. They drove to fires in their two-wheel fire truck known as the Foo Mobile. What’s Foo? My uncle found this word engraved on the bottom of a jade statue in San Francisco’s China town. The word Foo means Good-Luck. Another phrase that was popular and used by uncle Bill was Notary Sojac which in Gaelic means Merry Christmas and 1506 Nix Nix, which was the hotel room number of a fellow daily news cartoonist Al Posen."
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Reply by BrendaTx on 7/29/13 2:16pm
Msg #478382
Smokey was not a notary public.
Either that, or I have lost my reading skills. That phrase hung up on the character's wall but it meant Merry Christmas.
*Another phrase that was popular and used by uncle Bill was Notary Sojac which in Gaelic means Merry Christmas and 1506 Nix Nix, which was the hotel room number of a fellow daily news cartoonist Al Posen."*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Stover
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Reply by Sylvia_FL on 7/29/13 2:20pm
Msg #478383
Re: Smokey Stover was a Fireman
Merry Christmas in Gaelic is 'Nollaig Shona Duit'
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Reply by BrendaTx on 7/29/13 2:23pm
Msg #478385
I don't think Smokey cared!! LOL n/m
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