Great googily moogily

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU
Tue Mar 29 22:23:05 UTC 2005


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:53:10 -0500, crg <langwidge at EROLS.COM> wrote:

>Frank Zappa says "great googly moogly" in his album _Apostrophe_.
>
>I think it's in the space between "St.Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast" and
>"Father O'Blivion."

As John Baker noted upthread, Zappa says the phrase in "Nanook Rubs It",
the second track on _Apostrophe_.

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And then
In a fit of anger
I pounced
And I pounced again
Great Googly Moogly!

http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/albums/Apostrophe/02.html
http://www.arf.ru/Notes/Apostro/rubsit.html
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--Ben Zimmer



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