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Back in February I posted here on Zippy’s fascination with certain words, among them the name of Grundy Gulch MT; Bill Griffith supplied a drawing of the mythical town (there’s a gulch, but not actually a town). Now it turns out that this Grundy Gulch bears a rough family resemblance (but only a rough one) to the mythical town of Dingburg –another silly name — MD, whose Main Street is depicted in this drawing from the cover of Griffith’s Welcome to Dingburg (Zippy Annual #9, 2008):

Note especially the vehicles in the two drawings.

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