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> From: Brad Clark <bradster@iglou.com>
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> Well, if the cartoon is considered canon (smurf canon... gawd), then
> Gargamel created Smurfette to sow discord among the male smurfs.  She
> originally had ugly spiky black hair, and was shunned by the smurfs until
> she got a little 'magic surgery'.
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I remember that she was originally created by Gargamel from a snake,
wasn't she? (And even weirder, when Peyo created them in Belgium,
there was no female Smurf. Smurfette was a creation of NBC to make
it more accessible to grrls. Just as well... ^_<). Like Asterix, Peyo's
Smurfs (actually, it was the Belgian equivillent, but I don't recall how to
spell it at the moment) could be very entertaining in comic form (also
Herge's Tintin...I remember Tintin fondly when I was a young'un from
the late 60s/early 70s Highlights...Such a sense of adventure from
that). IMO, some of the best comic strips from that period were
from Europe (the only strip from America from that period that
could compare in the adventure department was
Buz Sawyer and Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon, also IMO).

As usual, this is The Relic, from the outer fringes of the
Reality that is the Ranma ML....(didn't logon last night...too
zonked from "helping" my little sister pass out candy (read:
scaring the water outta the kids and parents....How much fun I had
with a passage I recorded from Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Sam Coleridge version I read on my mic), then added echo FX,
then ran backwards and overdubbed on the beginning of
Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs...Recorded the whole shmear
onto CDR and played it on my portable CD player I kept in my pocket.
The looks on their faces when a "stuffed monter dummy" started
"chanting" backwards was priceless...a true Polaroid moment ^_^).