So Glad I Was in the POGO Generation

[Buncy]

“ Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people,
do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those
characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the
clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to
a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to
join battle. There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that
those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close
at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags
waving and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and
not only may he be ours, he may be us. Forward! ”

—Walt Kelly, June 1953

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_%28comic_strip%29

Scroll down and you'll see where Phringus Malarkey got his pen name.
Phringus was a delightful character we had for a time in
alt.appalachian, but whose posts were sadly not archived.

Some of the funniest material in the Wiki article revolve around FBI
head, J. Edgar Hoover, who was a genuine paranoid. Hoover, who was
portrayed in POGO as a cigar-smoking bulldog, was sure Kelly's
cartoons sent encrypted messages, perhaps to foreign powers. Hoover
ordered decryption sleuths on his staff to decipher the "coded"
messages. Nothing, of course, ever came of it.