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Notes: Pencilled note in upper margin: “Llew quote – Ped Xing”
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Notes: Pencilled note in upper margin: “Llew quote – Ped Xing”
It’s fun to use Google to play this game. Check out each phrase’s history with Google and if someone else said something close, don’t use it.
In the last panel, Millie is actually quoting Timulty.
I don’t think Timulty counts as famous.
Well, he did have nine zillion hits on his blog.
I think you’re thinking of “flooba”.
Flooba actually is a real word, though. It’s short for ‘flooba dooba’.
I’m not positive (because I can’t find much about the history of hits of either term,) but the earliest I can find ‘flooba dooba’ is in 2013, and plain ‘flooba’ from Timulty came before that.
I googled “florb” and got
About 44,900 results (0.51 seconds)
“YOU HAVE 7 DAYS” – The Reapers’ Game, The World Ends With You (DS, iOS, Android, Switch)
228000 results on google. Sorry, millie.
That’s a big increase for only five years!
At one point, people were seriously worried that musical composition would grind to a halt because every possible tune would soon be written. About the same time, there were some (apparently serious) calls to shut down patent offices, because everything useful had already been invented.