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                                                                 BY JOE KEOHANE

"Like all good stories, this one begins with a bull humping a cow in the middle of the road. In 1957, Alan Abel, a lecturer and jazz drummer who occasionally went by the name 'Professor Paradiddle,' was on his way to a performance in Denton, Texas, when he found himself caught in a traffic jam caused by the aforementioned beasts. 'My father sat there studying the appalled expressions on the faces of the other motorists,' recalls Abel's daughter Jenny. 'He suddenly had an idea.'

"The idea was to write a satire about a group called 'The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals,' or SINA, which would call for animals to be clothed for the sake of decency. Abel submitted his story to the Saturday Evening Post, but when the editors missed the joke and angrily rejected it, he got an even better idea and founded SINA for real in 1959. The agenda: to get Bermuda shorts on horses, dogs, and any animal taller than 4 inches or longer than 6. The battle cry: 'A nude horse is a rude horse!'

"Thus was launched the career of America's greatest living hoaxer. Abel's story is chronicled in Abel Raises Cain, a documentary directed by Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett and now available on DVD. The filmmakers have been tirelessly promoting the film along the festival circuit and recently inked a deal with a Canadian distributor. They're still self-distributing in the United States."

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