[Ads-l] Semper Gumby (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Lighter
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> Subject: Semper Gumby
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> "Always flexible."
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> GB alleges an ex. in a Gumby book in 1986, but no snippet is available.
> 

I suspect this is one of those cases where GB is offering a book that they think is close to what you want, rather than actually fitting the search.

Neither this:

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015054131670

nor this:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Gumby.html?id=UrNkAAAAMAAJ

yield any actual results when searching for "semper".

Wikipedia has apocryphal credits to 1984, 1977/78, the Viet Nam era, and any other random date you would wish.

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