Re: [CR]FiFi: Specialites T.A. mascot

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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:41:19 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]FiFi: Specialites T.A. mascot
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Make that Specialites T.A.

Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>
> Does anyone know why the Specialites T.A. "mascot" or character
> trademark, the guy with freckles and a crewcut, is named FiFi? Is this
> like the creepy androgynous "Pat" character that Julia Sweeney created
> for "Saturday Night Live". Or is it just a "Jerry Lewis French thing"?
>
> http://www.blackbirdsf.org/ta/images/fifi.jpg
> http://www.blackbirdsf.org/ta/images/fifi2.jpg
>
> Chuck "le Big Mac" Schmidt

> South Pasadena CA

>

> .