Starvin' Marvin (1975)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 23 02:59:45 UTC 2006 

Wasn't "Starvin' Marvin" also the name of the Martian in the famous
Wahnuh Brudduhs cahtoon?
 Or maybe it was "Starvin' Martian."

-Wilson


On 1/22/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> >STARVIN MARVIN--45,600 Google hits
> >STARVING MARVIN--1,320 Google hits
> >...
> >My future wife told me that she's "starvin', Marvin." I told her that my
> >name's not Marvin, but I'll look for him.
> >...
> >...
>
> I imagine most Marvins (not that I've known that many) would be
> prefer to be called after the fashion of Marvelous Marv Throneberry
> (of Casey Stengel's Amazin' Mets), a moniker later applied to
> Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the Detroit boxer.
>
> larry
>
> >...
> >_World  War II's Contribution to Sports; Hydroplaning's 40-Year-Old Engines
> >Are Right  Out of the Battle of Britain A Sport Out of World War II _
> >(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=649854692&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD
> >&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1137980537&clientId=65882)
> >SHAV GLICK. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current  File). Los Angeles, Calif.: May
> >23, 1978. p. E1 (2 pages)
> >Second page:
> >Marvin Reinke, a hydro Walter Mitty, hopes to buy the old boat. Reinke, who
> >calls himself "Starvin' Marvin," is a boilermaker from Everett, Wash., an
> >unabashed idolizer of boats and drivers for 20 years.
> >...
> >...
> >_Dragsters:  Super Speed, Nicknames; Trying to Break Even 'This Is Our Hobby'
> >Dragsters:  Speed, Nicknames _
> >(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=1&did=110888867&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=11379
> >80917&clientId=65882)
> >By JAMES TUITE Special to The New  York Times. New York Times (1857-Current
> >file).  New York, N.Y.: Jul 14, 1978. p. A15 (2 pages)
> >...
> >...
> >(Trademark)
> >     Word Mark STARVIN' MARVIN
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> >...
> >..
> >(Trademark)
> >     Word Mark STARVIN' MARVIN
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> >...
> >...
> >(Trademark)
> >     Word Mark STARVIN' MARVIN
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> >...
> >...
> >(Trademark)
> >     Word Mark STARVIN MARVIN $$$$
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