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The one known as Muffin Face, comes from a long line of Muffin Faces owned by the plumbing supply baron, Lionel “Happy” Titsky. The origins of the name “Muffin Face” itself are somewhat obscure, but it is a well known fact that Lionel, himself, was known as “Muffin Face” for many years. It has been suggested that the origin of Muffin Face had something to do with a predilection for ladies panties and / or the fact that Lionel may have been a pock marked young fellow, although photographs of the man suggest the former.

Upon turning 40, Titsky came to the realization that he would not marry, and decided to continue his lineage in the only way he knew how–with cats. From the years 1965 - 2005, Titsky owned a total of 11 cats, some of whom met unfortunate ends while wandering his plumbing supply warehouse or ascending the legendary heap of women’s undergarments in the basement of his sizeable Brooklyn brownstone. Each Titsky “Kitsky”, as they were known to his friends, was given the name “Muffin Face” to commemorate Titsky.

In the few years before his death, Lionel Titsky slowly began to lose his mind. Below you will find one of the last known images of Titsky wherein it is apparent that he has just realized there was, in fact, an opponent across the table from him and even worse, that he was playing chess–not completing a crossword.

When it became apparent that the end was near, Titsky gave his last remaining Kitsky to a friend in Connecticut, who, upon his death, was so grief stricken that he had to relinquish the 11th and final Muffin Face, to the Danbury Animal Welfare Society, located conveniently and logically in Bethel, CT.

The rest, as they say, is history. As far as I am concerned, the story has just begun.