Colonel Blimp
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colonel-blimp-172-6218590
title:
Colonel Blimp
text:
Colonel Blimp is a British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low, first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard in April 1934. Blimp is pompous, irascible, jingoistic, and stereotypically British, identifiable by his walrus moustache and the interjection "Gad, Sir!" Low claimed that he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Victorian-style Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks. The character was na
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description:
British cartoon character by cartoonist David Low
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Blimp
date created:
2003-01-25T10:54:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T19:45:58Z
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