Interesting--the article gives 1957 as the original year of publication for Boofo: The Dog That Goes Where Santa Claus and notes that the book was based on the song. That either means the song was recorded in 1957 OR that Linn Sheldon sang it on TV (or in person?) prior to recording it. If there are any Boofo scholars reading this, please help us out here.
Here's Boofo, at least as he looked in 1957:
Image from the enjoyable www.clevelandseniors.com article linked above. And I think I'm in love with Boofo. Who isn't? There should be a Boofo Fan Club. Louie (from the Overboard comic strip) and Boofo are my favorite cartoon canines. I wonder if they've ever met?
And Godzilla is my favorite man-in-chintzy-rubber-suit monster of all time. In fact, my favorite monster, period. Godzilla is also the subject of my all-time favorite Weekly World News "headline":
I don't remember the exact year this "article" came out--it must have been around 1995. My department was still in its original building with our original desks and our original 22nd-floor view of the downtown. Hm. It could have been a little earlier, even. 1993, perhaps.
Anyway, I displayed the article on my desk, where it stayed for... a year, at least. Maybe longer. (Don't you wish you had my memory?) An even greater "headline" than "Flushing the Toilet Can Make You Sick."
While in Japan, all of those years ago, I bought a Godzilla-destroying-Tokyo playset, which included a plastic Godzilla (now lost) who shot plastic fireballs at two-section, rubber-band-secured buildings. One earned points by hitting the buildings and causing them to separate. I saved the great artwork on the package, and I can't help noticing how much Godzilla looks like Cheney during this morning's "Iraq was behind 9/11" speech. Except that Godzilla is more handsome and, as always, charismatic. And not nearly as destructive in his behavior....
Long-time Boofo fan Godzilla, laying waste to another Japanese city.
Lee
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