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Postal Service unveils Kermit, Muppets stamp set
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Most frogs settle for lily pads. Kermit the Frog has hopped onto a U.S. postage stamp.
The green leader of the beloved Muppets troupe was on hand Wednesday for a first day issue ceremony featuring 11 postage stamps honoring the Muppets and late creator Jim Henson at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in suburban North Hollywood.
"On behalf of the Muppets, it is a great honor to be featured on our own set of stamps," Kermit said.
Henson, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Statler and Waldorf, the Swedish Chef, Dr. Bunson Honeydew and his assistant Beaker are among the puppets honored in the Postal Service set. The 37-cent stamps will be released nationally on Thursday.
"When people see the stamps, they will be a reminder of the man who taught us to not take human flaws so seriously - a reminder that one person can make a difference in this world," Postal Service chief marketing officer Anita Bizzotto said.
Kermit and his friends aren't the first puppets to make it onto postage stamps. Charlie McCarthy managed the feat in 1991, along with his assistant Edgar Bergen.
It's been 50 years since Kermit the Frog's television debut on Henson's 1955 show "Sam and Friends." Birthday events include a 15-month, 50-stop world tour that begins Oct. 14 in Kermit, Texas, and includes a run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Most frogs settle for lily pads. Kermit the Frog has hopped onto a U.S. postage stamp.
The green leader of the beloved Muppets troupe was on hand Wednesday for a first day issue ceremony featuring 11 postage stamps honoring the Muppets and late creator Jim Henson at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in suburban North Hollywood.
"On behalf of the Muppets, it is a great honor to be featured on our own set of stamps," Kermit said.
Henson, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Statler and Waldorf, the Swedish Chef, Dr. Bunson Honeydew and his assistant Beaker are among the puppets honored in the Postal Service set. The 37-cent stamps will be released nationally on Thursday.
"When people see the stamps, they will be a reminder of the man who taught us to not take human flaws so seriously - a reminder that one person can make a difference in this world," Postal Service chief marketing officer Anita Bizzotto said.
Kermit and his friends aren't the first puppets to make it onto postage stamps. Charlie McCarthy managed the feat in 1991, along with his assistant Edgar Bergen.
It's been 50 years since Kermit the Frog's television debut on Henson's 1955 show "Sam and Friends." Birthday events include a 15-month, 50-stop world tour that begins Oct. 14 in Kermit, Texas, and includes a run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
I grew up with Kermit the Frog!
And though I could never understand the relationship he has with Miss Piggy...so be it! 
I just think it's cool that now some of my most favorite characters have a place of honor.
To see the stamps: http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_s...ay.jsp?OID=8588
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Will Elmo be on a stamp?