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Super Dave operated his fictional "Super Dave
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His signature logo, a caricature of his head inside a crash helmet directly atop a pair of crushed silver boots with no visible body, was from an iconic early sketch, "Balloon Ball", a "stunt" consisting of his standing in a hole in the ground reciting "Balloon Ball" as a
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rammed the top of his head a number of times. When pulled out of the hole, he then appeared as his eventual logo depicted: his helmeted head sitting directly atop his smashed down silver boots, the whole of his body supposedly compressed between boots and neck.
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