Hillbilly Crackpot » sadie hawkins http://www.hillbillycrackpot.com Humor & Entertainment from the Kentucky Bluegrass Mon, 02 May 2011 17:38:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sadie Hawkins Day Hillbilly Women Running Amok http://www.hillbillycrackpot.com/sadie-hawkins-day-hillbilly-women-running-amok/ http://www.hillbillycrackpot.com/sadie-hawkins-day-hillbilly-women-running-amok/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:53:51 +0000 The Crazy Hillbilly http://crazyhillbilly.wordpress.com/?p=78 Have you ever heard of Sadie Hawkins Day? Sadie Hawkins Day is THE day that hillbilly women run amok! It is supposed to be a hillbilly thing, but it actually originated in 13th century Scotland. To be more accurate Sadie Hawkins Day is a fictional day that was created by Al Capp for the syndicated comic strip Li’l Abner.

Some of you may recall an old Li’l Abner movie in which they celebrated Sadie Hawkins Day. In the movie all of the single men were running for the hills trying to escape the ugliest women. Any man who was caught was doomed to marry the woman who cornered him and let me tell you, the uglier and more desperate the woman was the harder she tried!

The first appearance of Sadie Hawkins Day was in the Li’l Abner strip on November of 1937 and for 40 years after that the citizens of Dog Patch endured Sadie Hawkins Day. Capp named the day in honor of Sadie Hawkins, the ugliest woman known, and it was her who worked the hardest to catch a man on this …

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