Q: What cartoon, named after a scatline in a Frank Sinatra song, was created by a Japanese-American who learned to draw in an WWII internment camp?
A. Scooby Doo. Illustrator Iwao Takamoto died earlier this month.
And now for something completely different...
While I was in Colombia, a kidnapped government minister escaped after being held captive for six years. Six years! That's more like a jail sentence. It was a huge news story that also received some coverage in the U.S....here's an article about Fernando Araujo's experience.
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Wait, so all that stuff about Scooby-Doo being created by a U-Mass grad (Fred=Amherst, Daphne=Mt. Holyoke, Velma=Smith, Shaggy=Hampshire) isn't true? I've been telling people that story for years...oops.
Yeah, I read that when it came out.
The song is "Strangers In The Night":
"Scooby dooby doo, ba da da dee dah...
Not true, despite the convincing correlations.
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