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Thread #148910   Message #3462006
Posted By: MGM·Lion
06-Jan-13 - 02:39 AM
Thread Name: Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket
Subject: RE: Wrap Me Up In My Tarpaulin Jacket
The epitome of 'old bufferdom' is of course an old soldier ~~ Colonel Blimp, originally created as an archetype of the buffer by cartoonist David Low for the [London] Evening Standard in the 1930s, but soon becoming antonomasiacally proverbial.

Good Wikipedia entry on him.

~M~