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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

1114.0. "Heavens to Murgatroid??" by CSC32::R_JACOBS (LIFE: No one gets out alive) Wed Oct 05 1994 17:14

    My apologies if there is already a note referring to this questions.
    
    Who or what is Murgatroid as in Heavens to Murgatroid.
    
    cheers,
    
    rick
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1114.1What about Heavens to Betsy?AUSSIE::WHORLOWBushies do it for FREE!Wed Oct 05 1994 19:0616
    G'day,
    
    
    
     HHHHH eeeavens to Murgatroyd... A Sssnagglepuss fan I bet!
    
    
    Exit stage left, In  hurry even!
    
    djw
    
    I believe Murgatroyd is a person's name with the same connotations as
    Puce as a colour....
    
    
    
1114.2CSC32::R_JACOBSExit stage left, In a hurry even!Thu Oct 06 1994 09:365
    Wasn't thinking of Sagglepuss just read it in another note.  Thanks for
    the new personal though.
    
    cheers
    rick 
1114.3OKFINE::KENAHDo we have any peanut butter?Thu Oct 06 1994 09:545
    The phrase "Heavens to Murgatroyd!" didn't originate with the
    Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss. I have no idea when 
    it was first used, but it definitely pre-dates its cartoon use.
    
    					andrew
1114.4Right.RICKS::PHIPPSDTN 225.4959Thu Oct 06 1994 12:474
  I think it originated with Hugh Herbert.  Early film and Vaudeville
  comedian.  At least that's who I picture when I think about it.

  Or was it Ed Winn?... . . .  .  .
1114.5JRDV04::DIAMONDsegmentation fault (california dumped)Thu Oct 06 1994 20:181
    Early film?  As in, To Heave a Murgatroyd?
1114.6I think not therefore I am not...PEKING::SULLIVANDDumb terminalFri Dec 16 1994 07:432
    I thought it was used by Spike Milligan in the British radio
    program(me) "The Goon Show" in the 1950s.