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As a kid I always figured Zippy was some kind of grown up humor that only made sense to wiser adults. Turns out it was always just pure fever dream-grade insanity.
I'm not going to lie - I'm lost lol. No idea what just happened in that.
Yes, exactly.
Holy shit, I haven't seen Zippy in decades. Wasn't it ran in National Lampoon or something?
No, but a lot of alternative newspapers.
Was in our local paper
...the hell did I just read?
I've heard of Zippy the Pinhead before. Are they all like this?
Pretty much.
Oh is Zippy based on a real person? I think I remember seeing a pic who had a head shaped like his. A birth defect?
There is a real disorder called microcephaly which Zippy's appearance is based on, but his personality and non-sequiturs are pure fantasy. Real microcephalics are severely developmentally disabled. The name comes from 'Zip the Pinhead,' a sideshow attraction (treated horribly by customers) who may have had microcephaly or may have just had a weird-shaped head. His last words were reportedly, "we sure fooled them, didn't we?" so who knows if he was really microcephalic or not.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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