Texas Town Celebrates Kermit‘s 50th B-Day: "KERMIT, Texas - Kermit the Frog began a globe-hopping tour to celebrate his 50th showbiz birthday in this small West Texas town that shares the beloved amphibian‘s name.
The town, one of two in the country named Kermit, also painted Kermit‘s face on the community‘s large water tower. The local Dairy Queen offered green French fries and ice cream in his honor. A park in town also will bear his name.
Kermit‘s 50-stop tour will cross four continents and last until the end of 2006. Stops include the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China, the Johnson Space Center and a courageous appearance at a Frog Leg Festival in Fellsmere, Fla. He‘s even scheduled to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
Kermit made his debut in a 1955 television comedy called 'Sam and Friends,' which aired locally in Washington, D.C., but he looked more lizardlike back then. Kermit was fashioned from an old coat belonging to the mother of late Muppets creator Jim Henson and was named after one of Henson‘s childhood friends."
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