“Oh-ho-ho-man. I could sit here and smell this pole all day, I kid you not.”
Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist
Bucky Katt's Big Book of fun, page 124
Bucky Katt, Satchel Pooch
“The cows sit on the telegraph poles and play chess
The cockatoo under the skirts of the Spanish dancer
Sings as sadly as a headquarters bugler and the cannon lament all day…”
End of the World, Ende der Welt', 1919
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