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Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

Chuck Jones

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Chuck Jones
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 21
Died: 2002
Died: February 22
Actor
Animation Director
Animator
Comics Artist
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Spokane
Washington
Charles Martin Jones
Charles M. Jones
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Split
Cottage
Separated
Cottages
Chips
Potato
Mattress
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Mattresses
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Fog
Smog
Confused
Gloves
Insides
Easily
Potatoes
Soaked
Summer
Wet
Glove

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