Smurfs mark 50th birthday in Belgium

[one...two...tree 2,762]

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.

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.

Their debut on U.S. television in 1981 launched their global rise to stardom and made the Smurfs a household name. A Smurf is a Pitufo in Spanish, a Schlumpf in German, Nam Ching Ling to the Chinese, a Sumafa in Japan and Dardassim in Hebrew.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080114/ap_en_...m_smurfs_turn50

[almaty 19]

the smurfs were cool except for jokey who appeared a little brokeback

[eric&gen 0]

Smurfette was the main ho of the village.

[Amby 490]

smurfette the ho...didn't the mean guy (in the black I forget his name) create her to distract the other smurfs

[churipu 4]

I smurfs! Grew up with them when I was a kid, although in Italy they are called "Puffi"

Edited January 14, 2008 by churipu

[one...two...tree 2,762]

smurfette the ho...didn't the mean guy (in the black I forget his name) create her to distract the other smurfs

I think so. They were a-sexual until she showed up.

[Nessa 23]

how dare you call the sweet smurfette ho?

[eric&gen 0]

The evil wizard? and his cat created smurfette? i didnt know lol i forget his name and the cats name.

[Amby 490]

gargamel and the cat I have no clue

[Amby 490]

I googled it...Azrael... which apparently is Arabic for Angel of Death, creepy huh

[almaty 19]

smurfette...made the boys and grandpa smurf.........turn blue ............and not just their balls

[Sister Fracas 5]

I dunno...I always found the Smurfs a tad disturbing....

Edited January 14, 2008 by Sister Fracas

[almaty 19]

I dunno...I always found the Smurfs a tad disturbing....

sister fracas..it was an obvious french plot to cause psychological damage on americans children

[Sister Fracas 5]

I dunno...I always found the Smurfs a tad disturbing....

sister fracas..it was an obvious french plot to cause psychological damage on americans children

I always suspected.... dang Frenchies....oop!

[almaty 19]

i know they are suppose to be from belgium, but everyone knowws int he south, that belgium is just a "suburb of france"