[Ads-l] Semper Gumby (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Can't prove it, but I suspect that "Semper Gumby" owes its existence to the
1987-89 revival of the character.

JL

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) <
william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

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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.
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> 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.
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> Neither this:
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> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015054131670
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> nor this:
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> https://books.google.com/books/about/Gumby.html?id=UrNkAAAAMAAJ
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> yield any actual results when searching for "semper".
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> Wikipedia has apocryphal credits to 1984, 1977/78, the Viet Nam era, and
> any other random date you would wish.
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