Origin of phrase attributed to Pogo
Mark Prater
I'm trying to find the origin of the phrase "Chowder and Marching Society".
I've been told it came from either Pogo or Winnie-the-Pooh. Does anyone
have any further information (or hints?). Thanks!
-- Mark Prater
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Colin Campbell
because he could get on the phone and talk to people, even if he couldn't
be seen or heard in person. But Crockett Johnson was similar to Watterson
in that he needed breaks from the strip, and the comic strip world bosses
wouldn't allow it back then, so he abandoned the strip.
Jack Applin
> I'm trying to find the origin of the phrase "Chowder and Marching Society".
> I've been told it came from either Pogo or Winnie-the-Pooh. Does anyone
> have any further information (or hints?). Thanks!
It's from the strip "Barnaby". The lead character, Barnaby, is a little
boy. His Fairy Godfather is Mr. O'Malley, who belongs to the "Elves,
Leprechauns, and Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society."
The quote is from p. 245 of The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics,
which devotes several pages to a Barnaby sequence introducing Gus the Ghost.
-Jack Applin
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Adam Lou Stephanides
> Good old Gus. And Ajax the dog. Mr. O'Malley was different from Hobbes
>because he could get on the phone and talk to people, even if he couldn't
>be seen or heard in person.
Mr. O'Malley could be seen and heard in person; there are a number of
examples in the series of paperback reprints that came out a few years
ago (which I unfortunately don't have available at the moment). It was
just that Barnaby's parents somehow always managed to miss meeting him.
--Adam