R.I.P. Kermit Scott

[stephenjlizard]

This story appeared yesterday in the Delta Democrat Times, and again today in a couple more news sources. Jim Henson's boyhood friend (and arguably the namesake for the famous frog) Kermit Scott passed away. Here are a couple articles for consumption:

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-06-17-0132.html
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080616/NEWS/80616006

Kinda sad.

 

[Super Scooter]

Well, I don't think you could say he was the "inspiration" for Kermit the Frog, possible where the name comes from, but...

Anyway, it is sad to hear that he's passed away.

 

[Rose]

That's so sad, but at the same time I'm surprised anyone apart from hard core Muppet fans and the Muppet people wouldn't have known who he was.

 

[Brooklyn]

Kermit Scott, inspiration for Muppet, dies at 71

The Associated Press
June 18, 2008

LELAND, Miss. - Kermit Scott, the man believed to be the inspiration for Jim Henson's proto-Muppet, Kermit the Frog, has died. He was 71.

Scott's brother-in-law, Aaron Moss, said the retired philosophy professor who lived in Monroe, Va., died last month.

Henson and Scott grew up as friends in Leland, a small Mississippi Delta town now home to a Muppets museum.

Family and friends said Scott shared his namesake's whimsical smile.

The Henson family moved away from Leland and the two lost touch.

Scott went on to become a philosophy professor at Yale, Purdue and Millsaps College, and was an advocate for the poor. He and his wife, Aadron, founded the Welfare Rights Organization and the food bank of Lafayette, Ind.

 

[BeakerSqueedom]

;____; RIP, Kermit. <3

 

[muppet baby]

RIP Kermit