The Adventures of Turnip Man

A paper mill has a lot of talent that is not needed for making paper. In one mill that I worked, one of the paper testers could draw really good cartoons. His characterizations of people he worked with were dead-on. He worked with a 40+ year old bachelor whom he turned into "Turnip Man". A few times a week, a cartoon would materialize throughout the mill telling of the adventures of "Turnip Man". Turnip Man wore tights and cape (think of super man) with a picture of a big turnip right on his chest. The cartoonist always had flies swarming around his head.

Needless to say, "Turnip Man" was not amused, and to paper mill tradition, to battle continued to escalate.  One day, a group of employees decided to have the First Annual Turnip Man Festival. While the real Turnip Map was sleeping (having just finished third shift), they invaded his yard, strung turnips around it, started a fire and a big pot of turnips. About lunch time, the woke Turnip Man up so he could be photographed by the local newspaper with his fellow employees enjoying turnips in his front yard.

The adventures of Turnip Man would have gone on for a long time,  but the cartoonist got a job at a newspaper near Plains Georgia to draw political cartoons (when Carter was President).