The Press: Btfsplk Does It
This week the most unthinkable event in the comic-strip world happenedapparently. After years of chasing Li'l Abner, busty, bee-yoo-tiful Daisy Mae had caught him on a give-away program. (She had guessed that Li'l Abner was "Mr. Bong" from the sound of a sledge hammer bopping his skull.) At the start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like an earthquake, always happened to disrupt things....
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