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Happy Smurf

Originally sold as the "Super Smurf" model 40207, AKA the "Angler". See www.mister-blue.de/schlumpf12/schlumpf08.php . When I spotted it at a flea market, it was as you see it here, missing the accessories.

 

Someone had to have designed it this way. The implications are pretty obvious when the thing is seen without its "accessories". Someone clearly went to the trouble of getting it past the various levels of Smurf Approval Committees. It's a bit like Damon Knight's short story "Cabin Boy", which is kind of a shaggy dog story based on a short obscene verse, or the bit in Heinlein's The Star Beast about how "Lummox wished to continue, uh, raising John Thomases" — both jokes deliberately slipped past puritanical but naive/innocent editors.

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Taken on September 25, 2007