Li’l Abner Loses Mattress Testing Job to Dummy

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.


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