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Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

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Topps, a company that is best known for sports memorabilia, produced "Wise Guy" pins during the 1960s that featured  satire/parody for novelty and humor.

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The phrase “DON’T FOLLOW ME… I’M LOST!” pairs a worried cartoon face with movable googly eyes to create a humorous, self-deprecating message. Similar jokes appeared on bumper stickers and novelty items in the mid-20th century, letting wearers share a playful sense of confusion or individuality. Googly eyes have roots in early 20th-century comic art and later became a staple of crafts and novelties.

The button was made by the Green Duck Company, a Chicago-based manufacturer founded in 1906 by George G. Greenburg and Henry J. Duckgeischel. Green Duck produced campaign buttons, tokens, and novelties for much of the 20th century. They were known for making items for both political parties and for mass-market humor and advertising buttons.

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Illustrator Thomas E. Powers (1870-1939) is known as the first American to draw a color comic strip for a newspaper, the New York Evening World. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, educated in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked briefly in Chicago, Illinois before moving to New York City in 1894. Gloom is a character from his best-known comic "Joy and Gloom."

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A "cool kid" refers to a young person who is a trendsetter and usually emulated by his or her peers. 

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Illustrator Rube Goldberg was born in San Francisco, California and moved to New York City around 1907. The phrase "I'm the guy who" was a trademark expression of Goldberg. He coined it around 1910.  He was well known cartoonist and created "Mike and Ike" and "Boob McNutt" among many other strips.  Later in life, Goldberg help found the National Cartoonist Society (1946) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize (1948) for his political cartoons.

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"COME'N GET IT" is a colloquial way of saying "come and get it." The phrase can also be used in many contexts, such as a challenge to fight or a playful invitation. The most common meaning is a call to come and eat, as in a parent calling their children to the dinner table. It can be a challenge to confront someone, as in "Come and get it if you think you're tough!" The phrase can be used humorously to suggest that something is available and waiting for someone. 

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