On 26 June, Marcus Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > Ray Brown wrote:
> > >I remember many years ago in some cartoon series - I don't recall which
it
> > >was now - there was a catch phrase and I was never sure whether it was
> > >"Heavens to Murgatroid" or "Heavens to Murkatroid" (the spelling of
> > >murgatroid ~ murkatroid is probably wrong - one must be).
> > >
> > >I eagerly await enlightenment on the correct phrase, the cartoon & the
> > >character who habitually said it :-)
> > >
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>
> I believe the character was Snagglepuss (or however that is supposed to be
> spelled) from the Hannah-Barbara cartoons. Same shows as Yogi Bear and
> Huckleberry Hound.
Sure was! Used to be one of my favorite characters!
The phrase was "Heavens to Murgatroid!". You can
download a wav file of him saying it (about 18 Kb)
at:
http://www.topthat.net/webrock/flisou.htm
But _I_ remember Snagglepuss more for saying
(when beating a hasty retreat to offscreen) "Exit, stage left!"
According to the info at:
http://members.aol.com/PaulEC2/Snagglepuss.html
the voice was provided by Daws Butler.
Thanks for the nostalgia-trip, guys!
Dan Sulani
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