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secret tid-bit about garfield....


Jim Davis' first college roomate and long time friend Walter Keys was actually a big time drug addict before they met. He liked dogs, so Walter thought of the name OD (overdose), or ODIE, for long.

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Is that true?! I never even knew about it!

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Not the way I heard it. I read that Jim Davis named him after a character in a commercial named "Odie the village idiot" He thought the name sounded right for a dumb dog.

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Oh wait, I think that's right! I read about that somewhere in the 20th Anniversary Book (Twenty Years and Still Kickin').

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