Smurfs mark 50th birthday in Belgium

[Divine Discontent]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_en_tv/belgium_smurfs_turn50;_ylt=AiTGtZPveBnk6RNQlGlITpInHL8C

BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Smurfs — led by Papa Smurf and Smurfette — kicked off a year of 50th birthday celebrations Monday with Smurfberry cake and sasparilla juice.
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The late cartoonist Pierre Culliford — best known by his pen name, "Peyo" — first introduced the tiny blue figures in a comic strip in October 1958. He called them Schtroumpf; they became known worldwide as the Smurfs.

The Smurfs, forest dwellers who live in little white-capped mushroom homes, developed their own "Smurf" language in which nouns and verbs were interchanged.

[JHB]

1. Smurfy!

All comments, no matter what the sentiment, boil down to "smurfy".

[Sam_Smith]

2. Well, Smurf me! The smurfs are 50 smurfing years old.

[Warpy]

3. Do you know why they call them Smurfs?

That's what they sound like when you run over them with a truck.

[Chovexani]

4. What's your smurfin' problem?

Anti-Smurfism is downright smurfy.

[Javaman]

5. Soylent Green is made of Smurfs!!!!

wait a second. Smurfs are blue...

Hmmmm, got to rethink this for a second...

Toilet Bowl tablets are made of Smurfs!!!!