

At night the light stuns them, then they may be whacked in the head with the stick and put in the bag for frying up later on. Usually shmoo hunters, now a sport in some parts of the country, use a paper bag, flashlight, and stick to capture their shmoos.

When roasted they taste like pork, and when baked they taste like catfish. If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself-either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or under a grill, after which they taste like steak.

Shmoos are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten.They require no sustenance other than air. They reproduce asexually and are incredibly prolific, multiplying faster than rabbits.Cartoonist Al Capp ascribed to the shmoo the following curious characteristics: It has a rich gamut of facial expressions and often expresses love by exuding hearts over its head. Its feet are short and round, but dexterous, as the shmoo's comic book adventures make clear. It has smooth skin, eyebrows, and sparse whiskers-but no arms, nose, or ears. The popular character has gone on to influence pop culture, language, geopolitics, human history, and even science.Ī shmoo is shaped like a plump bowling pin with stubby legs. The shmoo (plural: shmoos, also shmoon) is a fictional cartoon creature created by Al Capp (1909–1979) the character first appeared in the comic strip Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948.
