The legendary Hatfield v. McCoy feud is once again in the news, nearly 150 years after it began in West Virginia.
The name behind all of the fussin’ and fightin’ may in fact be Von Hippel-Lindau. [Link Here] It’s a disease that’s marked by tumors on the adrenal glands that can result in aggressive behavior. And all this time I thought it was due to bad moonshine. Hey, maybe Von Hippel-Lindau disease explains the Shiite v. Sunni conflict!
I first learned of the famous feud from watching a 1938 Tex Avery cartoon on TV, “A Feud There Was”. Ya wanna see? Shore y’all duz. Don’t know why the name Hatfield was changed to Weaver.
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Note: I transferred this cartoon from LD using a new method that’s both troublesome and slow. But the results are about as good as it gets, folks, without getting ridiculous with the bit rate, or paying real money for a FLV encoder.
Good question about cartoon noses in the 30’s. I think even by ’38 they were already considered outdated. They look sort of like balloons, to me.
The results ARE good! So good, in fact, that Elmer Fudd morphed into Wimpy from the “Popeye” cartoons. Just kidding. Why did the early cartoonists always draw noses like big, ugly, blood-filled blisters? UGH! The multi-trigger rifle was a good gag.