Thus, for example, the legs “on a Pedestal” presented by the Gotham Hosiery company are one facet of our “replaceable parts” cultural dynamics. In a specialist world it is natural that we should select some single part of the body for attention. Al Capp expressed this ironically when he had L’il Abner fall desperately in love with the pictorial scrap of a woman’s knee, saying (January 21, 1950) “Why not? Some boys fall in love with the expression on a gal’s face. Ah is a knee man!” Four months and many lethal and romantic adventures later, ‘L’il Abner was closing in on the owner of the knee.