As I mentioned in my Front Page my nick name is Shmoo, kindly, (or perhaps not so kindly) given to me by my Boyfriend Brendan.  But i have been told by my dad and a number of Internet friends that Shmoo is another name for a Female's 'Private' Parts so i went on a web search for a picture of this "shmoo" character and i found out that it looks like a "little white bowling pin shaped figure with big eyes and whiskers and a big mouth with cute little stumpy legs" (or the pictures on this page).  I would like to think that i dont look like this but as Brendan says i am cute and cuddly and have a little head and big hips so i guess i am stuck with Shmoo for a while longer *giggles*.  I know one similarity that i have with Shmoo is that i have a squeaky little voice, shmoo sounds some what like "tickle me Elmo" who you will find on this page too.
 
Well the real Shmoo is the little white character pictured on this page (the bowling pin shaped one).

Shmoo is a character from Al Capp's comic, "Li'l Abner".  Shmoo was created in the 40's as a way for Capp to show that there is such thing as too much of a good thing.  You see, with shmoos, no one has to work, and with no one working, the world would stop.  Shmoos provide everything a human needs.  Eggs, milk, cheese, all packaged neatly and labeled "grade A".  They reproduce at the blink of an eye and the best part is, they need no upkeep.  They don't eat!  Their only purpose in life is to satisfy humans.  They would even drop dead of happiness if someone looked at them with a hungry look on their face, ready for cooking.  The shmoos were eventually banished to the "Valley of the Shmoon" where they couldn't escape because their small legs couldn't climb the valley walls.

The shmoo returned in the 50's when Li'l Abner's boy found a shmoo in hiding.  When Abner returned the shmoo to the valley, other shmoos escaped on him.  Those shmoos then reproduced and the government declared a national emergency asking citizens to kill shmoos as a duty to their country.  Of course no one could kill something that was so lovable and adorable and gave you anything you wanted for free.  So Abner's mother sent a picture of Abner's pappy with a hungry look on his face to Washington where the picture was distributed around the country and all shmoos dropped dead of happiness when they saw the picture.  That was the end of the shmoo in the Li'l Abner comics.  Some years later, shmoo returned as the New Shmoo in Hanna Barbera cartoons.  But that too never lasted and the shmoo hasn't been heard of since.


 

Well as you can All see, Shmoo is an adorable little character, cute, cuddly, kind, sweet, and always ready to help.  He is edged on by good doings and gets hurt by bad doings.  So all in all and in the end, I Love Shmoo and am proud to be named after this adorable little cartoon character.
 
 
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