h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

At the Garden Center were I work, we have long wanted to establish "titles" for all the employees. During C-mas, we were going to be reindeer (I wanted to be Dasher... but I think I was possibly going to be Dancer....), but that didn't happen.

Yesterday, the manager over General Merchandise called one of my co-w*rkers Grumpy and the other Doc. For a couple hours, my department brainstormed on distributing Snow White and the Seven Dwarves names... and then...

The Smurfs seemed a better fit. Works better with the Garden Center concept (mushrooms, anyway... ). We TRIED our best to think of ALL the smurfs, but the best we came up with (and wow, does my manager have a great memory!!!) were: Brainy, Smurfette, Papa, Baby, Hefty, Harmony, Vanity, Painter.... and.... Poetry.

I did not believe in this Poetry Smurf. HA!!! I was quite incredulous, because I could not remember him. It was rather painful that I could not access the Internet, or anyone with access to the Internet, until hours later when I was on campus again.

I ran a few searches on google that were more miss than hit. No rosters from Smurf Village, until I searched for "Who are the Smurfs?" Entry number one!??.... from hootoo.

I should have just searched on hootoo in the first place.

.... And there is no Poetry Smurf. He's Poet Smurf.

So I get the honor of that appellation.... the store manager's apparently promised to buy us t-shirts. And our smurfy names will go on each. I am bloody excited. It's a little like being in high school again, and looking forward to marching band t-shirts, or to those groovy graduation (Class of 1998, me!!! YEYUH!!!) t-shirts, with everyone's name on the back.

::sigh:: Sometimes it's the simple things in life... I want to find a picture of Poet Smurf now. YAY!!!

Who was the smurf that was always getting everything wrong and breaking things? j

Are you going to have pictures of the smurfs on your shirts? Even thought "Poet" Smurf is a good fit for you - I think "Smurfette" would be better...

It all sounds smurfy Dragonfly!

I do not know the english names, but there should also be the Big smurf(the boss with the red hat), the strong smurf and the fun smurf, who distributes exploding s.

Awesome... you both remember SOOO much!!!

Clumsy Smurf is the one you are thinking of, Michele. That's the girl who the GM manager originally called Grumpy...

There IS a Grumpy Smurf. MY manager's claiming that. She wants a pink cap with "Grumpy" on it.

Hi Marjin!!!

The Big Smurf is Papa Smurf. We've got a Papa Smurf.

The strong one is Hefty, another associate.

The fun smurf I had forgot about until I read the guide entry-- that's Jokey Smurf. And no one's been dubbed Jokey yet.

... wooops!!!... didn't answer the picture-on-shirts question.

I think it'd be asking too much to get the pictures on the smurfs. I mean, on the shirts!!!

The store has to watch that bottom line, you know... I just want to see what this Poet Smurf looks like.

As for me being Smurfette, oh no... I'm not.

http://www.smurf.com/infos/who/16poet.gif



YAY!!! This is FAHN!!!

Smurf song....

now that is earworm song you do not forget easily, but i seem to forgot it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm



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That's a cute smurf picture!

Heh heh heh, I already read that in email...

When I was a kid, you used to be able to collect smurfs at National petrol stations. I seem to remember that there were quite a lot of them in the collection, but my Dad preferred the free tumblers given away by rival garages. I even remember that National (then a major petrol brand but now nearly, but not quite, defunct) had a TV advertising jingle 'You get service with a smurf'.

My sister had a car she called the Smurfmobile ...

The smurfs didn't come along until I was already in my forties .
I don't know anything about them.

Hope everybody had a happy April Fool's Day.

Waaait... I know you were born the same year as my parents were, Paul, so I know that you're 25 years older than me... I'd say you were likely in your 30s

Shea, why was it called the smurfmobile!???

eeeeeevvvvvvverybooooddeeee.

YAY!!! for the smurfs!!!

Hi, PF!!! YAY!!!

Amy, do men in their 30s immerse themselves in smurf trivia?

Why not go for the bad guys, like the black smurfs, the magician or his Azrael?

It was Smurf blue! And my sister's such a Smurfette!

Is there a cure for that yet?

Gargamel, the evil wizard, is the manager over the manager over the department, Marjin...

.... I don't know if there is a cure for Smurfette.

Well, we must pray for a miracle cure, then.