Joe Btfsplk is a character in the comic strip Li'l Abner. He is well meaning, but is the world's worst jinx, bringing bad luck to all those around him. A small dark cloud hovers over his head, to symbolize his bad luck. This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Lil Abner was a comic strip in United States newspapers, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the town of Dogpatch. ... A jinx, in popular superstition and folklore, is: A sort of curse placed on a person that makes them prey to large numbers of minor misfortunes and other forms of bad luck; A person afflicted with a similar curse, who, while not directly subject to a series of misfortunes, seems... This article is about good and bad fortune. ...

According to cartoonist Al Capp, Btfsplk is a rude sound. During a public lecture by Al Capp, his demonstration of this phatic sound was to close your lips, but leave your tongue sticking out, then to blow out air, which is also called a 'razzberry' or Bronx cheer. A cartoonist at work. ... Al Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Lil Abner. ... In linguistics, a phatic expression is one whose only function is to perform a social task. ... Bronx cheer - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

"How else would you pronounce it?" -- Al Capp.