McHenry County Blog

Little Abner didn't do a lot a work, but he did have a job as a mattress tester.

No smart remarks about Little Abner’s intelligence.

Al Capp’s Li’l Abner was a mattress tester for the Stunned Ox Mattress Company.

The only other job, which I do not remember as a regular reader during the late 1940′s and 1950′s, was as a crescent cutter for the Little Wonder Privy Company.

Guess that job is gone.

Lost to indoor plumbing.

And his modern job of mattress tester?

Also apparently a victim of new technology.

Serta now uses “an anthropomorphic dummy, nicknamed ‘Anthro Al’ …to test the comfort level of mattresses…in Hoffman Estates,” according to a Chicago Tribune article

Lt'l Abner used to be a mattress tester. Now Serta has replaced human mattress testers wit a dummy.

“I don’t believe there’s any cloud that hangs over me. I think there’s northing but sunshine hanging over me.”

Governor Rod Blagojevich said the day before the Patrick Fitzgerald sky fell.

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My apologies to Al Capp for this modification of his cartoon character Joe Btfsplk.

From the L’il Abner web site developed by web site developed by the Social Law Library of Boston, Massachusetts:

“Joe Btfsplk: World’s most loving friend and worst jinx who always travels with a dark cloud over his head.”

Head transplant surgery on the Rod half of JimRod and Joe Btfplk was performed by Dr. Heck of a Guy blogger Allan Showalter. Today he introduces his out-of-state readers what is going on in Illinois.

“I don’t believe there’s any cloud that hangs over me. I think there’s northing but sunshine hanging over me.”

Governor Rod Blagojevich said the day before the Patrick Fitzgerald sky fell.

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My apologies to Al Capp for this modification of his cartoon character Joe Btfsplk.

From the L’il Abner web site developed by web site developed by the Social Law Library of Boston, Massachusetts:

“Joe Btfsplk: World’s most loving friend and worst jinx who always travels with a dark cloud over his head.”

Head transplant surgery on the Rod half of JimRod and Joe Btfplk was performed by Dr. Heck of a Guy blogger Allan Showalter. Today he introduces his out-of-state readers what is going on in Illinois.