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Heh, I remember reading that exact comic when I was a kid. To this day, whenever I see a hookah (or a reference to one), I have a brief flash of Mr. Wilson choking.
Also thanks to a Dennis the Menace comic that I must have read around the same time, I inextricably link the word "ocelot" with an image of a slice of cake with pink frosting. I have no idea why.