 Our company, Fred Pinsocket Productions, was named after Fred. Fred actually is a little cartoon guy our founder, Peter Apel, has been drawing (more like "doodling") since junior high school. Fred's most common appearance through the years has been as a baseball player, though he has made appearances on various personal greeting cards and has shown up in such forms as a drummer, a graduate, and a cowboy. He almost always is seen with his arms straight out to the sides, since our founder doesn't know how to draw him other ways.
There you have the inside scoop. Oh. Fred's last name? Way back when our mascot only had a first name, our founder worked diligently in a summer job building printed circuit boards, where many of the sensitive ICs had to be plugged into various sizes of pre-soldered sockets; 10-pin sockets, 18-pin sockets, etc. "Hey! That sounds like someone's last name!" Poof. Fred Pinsocket was born. Listen below to Fred singing with Peter Apel in this "I Love Bananas"
song clip from the I've Got a Dinosaur on My Head! music CD! (Note: If you love bananas, buy the CD here.) |
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