Well, not literally, I'd imagine they'd get mistaken for little blue smarties...
It has recently, like yesterday, come to my attention that there is a new Smurf film out, in 3D, called 'Smurf 3D', which, in all *likelihood (*caution: spoiler alert), will be in 3D... and about Smurfs.
Being (proudly) in the top 1 percentile of adult males who have blogged about Smurfs in the past 5 years, I should be more excited than I am. I'm not.
Also, since this blog seems to get more visitors from people looking for 'Smurfs', 'knee rashes' and the phrase 'Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net', I should be at least motivated about it to some degree. I'm not.
Not wanting to completely piss on the smurf parade though, here is a nice tid-bit about Smurfs for all you Smurf-seekers out there:
The name 'Smurf' and ensuing concept, originally came from a Belgian Artist Peyo, who had mis-pronounced a word at dinner as he was asking for something to be passed over.
UPDATE: Now pissing on my own parade, I actually took a moment to look up the 'real' story on the Internet and it turns out that he was asking for the 'salt' to be passed over and, furthermore, the actual word that came out was 'schtroumpf', not 'smurf'. Which is French for 'whatever' so it seems (or allegedly anyway. I don't speak French and Babelfish does not seem to agree... nor know what it is at all?!?).
It was only in subsequent translation to Dutch that it became 'Smurf' and, from there, in English too!
So, after all that (and 30 years of my own belief), he never actually said 'Smurf' in the first place.
*sigh*, I liked my version better...
