# The Grimmis is Dead .... I buried Grimmis

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**Created:** [November 5, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grimmis-is-dead-i-buried-grimmis/91592 "2001-11-05T13:12:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-grimmis-is-dead-i-buried-grimmis/91592/1 "2001-11-05T13:12:18Z")

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**Pepper Mill** took **MilliCal** shopping yesterday, and MilliCal insisted on stopping at McDonald’s. Ronald McDonakld was there, so she got an autograph and a book on traffic safety.

I looked through the book after they got home, and noticed something odd. I held up the back cover in front of Pepper Mill and said “Abbey Road”.

She saw it instantly. There are four McDonald’s characters crossing a road at a crosswalk. It looks just like the cover of the Beatles’ album.

“Oh, my God, you’re right! The cars are even parked on the wrong side of the road!”

(Actually, I hadn’t been sharp enough to catch that. But it’s true – they’re parked on the left side, not the right. And there’s a Beetle-sized car right where there’s one on the album cover.)

“Yes, I said,” Grimmis is Dead!"

“He’s not the only one walking barefoot,” Pepper observed.  
So there it is – McDonald’s used Abbey Road as a guide to the back cover of a book on road safety. Was this unintentional? Or did some cartoonist try slip one by the McDonald’s folks?