Got Handy Pandy? Get a Dollar from Disney!

Bob readies his handy-pandys - too late! - for Disney contest

- by Bob McLain, January 13, 2011

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No matter how long I live, I'll never learn all there is to learn about Disney.

I bet even Disney historian Jim Korkis hasn't heard of the handy-pandy contest that Disney ran in one of its comic books way back in 1940. A handy-pandy is a word pair consisting of an adjective that modifies a rhyming noun. Like stout lout.

Well, in 1940, Disney ran a contest offering $1.00 to each of the twenty-five 'boys and girls' who sent in their best handy-pandys by December 17, 1940. A dollar was big-time back then. And to a kid, it was a fortune.

Think I'm making this up? Here's the proof:

From the December 1940 issue of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories

Naturally, I have a few handy-pandys of my own, even though I doubt Disney will honor entries postmarked over seven decades past the deadline.

But golly, if they did, I'd be a winner!

How about ... pale Dale (occurs whenever Dale sees Chip au naturel). Or bendy Wendy (Peter Pan's reaction when he saw Wendy's unusual prowess at the game of Twister).

And the best for last: poofy Goofy. 'Nuff said.

Come on, that's gotta be worth a dollar!

If twenty-five people each send me a dollar, I'll have enough for a new bottle of bourbon to replace the old bottle I drank in order to think up those handy-pandys.

On second thought, maybe I should just lay off the bourbon...

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