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Greeblings
"O J" wrote in message
... Hi All, Does anyone know if there was a prior reference to greeblings than an old "National Lampoon" article? It concerned a young tomcat who chased greeblings, but also swice (sweece?) and gazoon. I forget which one did which, but one of them spun dust bunnies under furniture and one of the others put wire hangers in closets. I forget which impish little task the third one did. No, but I owuld like to read the original National Lampoon article. Is it on the web somwhere and do you happen to have the URL? I did a quick search of "greeblings" in Google, although there were far to many hits to make any sense of. Yowie |
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FWIW the British comedian Peter Cook used it in the early 1960's in
the TV show "Not Only............But Also" (IIRC, it's a long time ago) when he was interviewed as the character "Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling", who was not to be confused (he said) with the similarly named but completely different "Sir Arthur Greeb-Streebling". Anyone else remember way back when who can add to or correct my failing memory? Purrs to all Exocat Bandit Pericles Snowball -- Feline family viewable at: http://community.webshots.com/user/exocat "O J" wrote Does anyone know if there was a prior reference to greeblings than an old "National Lampoon" article? |
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O J wrote
Does anyone know if there was a prior reference to greeblings than an old "National Lampoon" article? It concerned a young tomcat who chased greeblings, but also swice (sweece?) and gazoon. I forget which one did which, but one of them spun dust bunnies under furniture and one of the others put wire hangers in closets. I forget which impish little task the third one did. There's an article on my Storypage Greeblings: What Do We Know by Robert A Moeser, Boston, Massachusetts, USA It has a bibliography, one of which [I believe] is real. I have no idea how old this article is, or which is the real reference. http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gblings.htm -- David Stevenson Storypage: http://blakjak.com/sty_menu.htm Liverpool, England, UK Emails welcome Nanki Poo: SI Bp+W B 10 Y L+ W++ C+ I T+ A- E H++ V- F Q P B+ PA+ PL+ SC Minke: SI W+Cp B 1 Y++ L-- W- C+ |
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