Seemed Like an IDIOTIC idea!

Garfield flambe' (now that's a good idea!)






Just when you think people can't get any dumber...
You open up the paper and see a story like the one I saw in today's North County edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Lack of sponsorships delays display of 40 Garfield statues

The story, by Lola Sherman contained some of the following:
"Five-foot-tall statues of Garfield, the sassy comic-strip cat, will not be drawing tourists along old Highway 101 this summer after all.
"A plan to install 40 individually decorated Garfields between La Jolla and Oceanside is on hold because not enough people were willing to spend $4500 to sponsor a replica of the lasagna-loving feline."

Where do I begin to express the magnitude of how stupid I think this "idea" is??? Good God, there isn't enough space in infinity times ten to express how crack-brained it is. Please, oh please, make it NEVER happen! Garfield is the single most un-funny comic in the history of newspapers! I long ago concluded that the only reason the strip continues to run in most major dalies is because of the slavish devotion of humorless cat lovers who find this useless hairball..cute. Not funny...CUTE! Yeah, about as cute as a bad case of athlete's foot.

I'll continue to monitor this disaster in the making and do everything in my power to snuff it out. There is a woman associated with an animal center located in Rancho Santa Fe who is still attempting to make this cultural equivalent of Armageddon happen by securing a "title sponsor".

Any thoughts on how a five-foot-tall talking pile of pig flop might go over?

You're right. That's probably one we save for Iowa.