Nomination goes to MaddieDigital for his wonderful accounts of watching the Dead in England in the ‘70s and 80’s

Go see at www.myspace.com/fadinghorses

some readers might now start to understand how it is impossible for UK Deadheads to take themselves too seriously ;-)

I nominate marye for the Zippy the Pinhead award for starting a topic "Who Is Lily Allen?" on this site.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman-Song of Myself

Are We Having Fun Yet?

TigerLilly, here is part of the description from Wikepedia. But to really understand just google and get on the Zippy website. You have to see him to understand and to understand one must be slightly and happily deranged.

marye gets the award because putting Lilly Allen on this site is the kind of thing that Zippy would do.
Here you go, but do look at the strip on the Zippy site.

"Zippy made his first appearance in Real Pulp Comix #1 in March 1971. The comic strip began in The Berkeley Barb in 1976 and was syndicated nationally soon after, originally as a weekly strip; it has been a daily feature since 1985, distributed by King Features.

The Zippy comic strip has a cult following of devoted readers; however, there are those who find the strip incomprehensible. This antagonism and confusion is so common that the official Zippy website contains a tutorial on understanding the comic strip [1]. The original home of the strip was the San Francisco Examiner, where it was first published daily in 1985. It was picked up for worldwide syndication by King Features in 1986. When the San Francisco Chronicle canceled Zippy briefly in 2002, the Chronicle received thousands of letters of protest, including one from Robert Crumb, who called Zippy "by far the very best daily comic strip that exists in America". The Chronicle quickly restored the strip, but dropped it again in 2004, leading to more protests as well as grateful letters from non-fans. The strip continues to be syndicated in many other papers, but often ranks at or near the bottom of reader polls[2].

The strip is unique among syndicated multi-panel dailies for its near-absence of either straightforward gags or continuous narrative, and for its unusually intricate artwork, which is reminiscent of the style of Griffith's 1970s underground comics.

[edit] Characters and content
Zippy's original appearance was partly inspired by the microcephalic Schlitze, from the film Freaks (which was enjoying something of a cult revival at the time), and P.T. Barnum's sideshow performer, Zip the Pinhead (who was not a microcephalic, but was nevertheless billed as one)[3]. (Coincidentally, Zip the What-Is-It's real name was William Henry Jackson or Johnson (according to various sources); Griffith's full name is William Henry Jackson Griffith, after his great-grandfather, the noted photographer.) However, Zippy is distinctive not so much for his skull shape, or for any identifiable form of brain damage, but for his enthusiasm for philosophical non sequiturs, verbal free association, and the pursuit of pop culture ephemera. His wholehearted devotion to random artifacts satirizes the excesses of consumerism. Zippy's unpredictable behavior sometimes causes severe difficulty for others, but never for himself.

Zippy almost[4] always wears a yellow muumuu with large red polka dots, and puffy, white clown shoes.

He is married to a nearly identical pinhead named Zerbina, and has two children, Fuel-Rod and Meltdown. He has three close friends: Claude Funston, a hapless working man, Griffy, a stand-in for Bill Griffith who often appears in the strip to complain about various aspects of modern life and Shelf-Life, a fast-talking schemer always looking for "the next big thing". A humanoid toad, Mr. Toad (less commonly Mr. the Toad) who embodies blind greed and selfishness, appears occasionally, as does Zippy's angst-ridden brother, Lippy. The Toadettes, a group of mindless and interchangeable amphibians, also pop up here and there.

In his daily-strip incarnation, Zippy spends much of his time traveling and commenting on interesting places; recent strips focus on his fascination with roadside icons featuring giant beings; Zippy also frequently participates in his long-running conversation with the giant fiberglass doggie mascot of San Francisco's "Doggie Diner" chain (later, the Carousel diner near the San Francisco Zoo). The website encourages people to send photos of interesting places for Zippy to visit in the strip.

His most famous quote is "Are we having fun yet?," which has become a catch phrase. It appears in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Zippy's signature expression of surprise is "Yow!""

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman-Song of Myself

Thanks izzie and marye. I will place this honor on the top of my resume. I also want to thank our three cats, Mondo, Junior and Bliss for truly helping me understand what David Gans was talking about.

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman-Song of Myself