BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question

Subject: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:02 AM

the 'Incongrous words" thread got me thinking about this...

in the Dr. Doolittle series - there is a turtle who survived the biblical flood and went on to become extremely aged and large...Dr. Doolittle helps cure his arthritis/gout by having flocks of birds build him an island in the center of his lake (carrying the rocks, pebbles and sand one at a time)

What the heck was the turtle's name?

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:37 AM

Daumefino, sir!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:39 AM

no, I'm pretty sure that wasn't it.

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 11:56 AM

ah-hah! Dr. Doolittle and the Secret lake! mudface.

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:03 PM

now it's bugging me that I can't remember the name of the green canary.

dab-dab was the duck; gub,gub the pig. Jip was the dog. the pushme-pullyu didn't have a name that I know of, neither did the Great Luna Moth.

whitey was a mouse,lived in the cooperative in the back garden...

Mathew Muggs the Cat-meat man;

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:06 PM

pipinella ?

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:16 PM

THANK YOU!

boy - it's been a long time since I read those books. I remember trying to even find them for my nephew 20 some odd years ago - and one librarian who told me they had removed them for being non-PC.

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: Micca
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 12:35 PM

MMario, you could try Powells Here They do 2nd hand books and have a good many listed

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 01:06 PM

Mario...there are two books at Project Gutenberg

The Story of Dr. Dolittle
and

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle

you can download a .zip, or view text online..like this

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/vdrdl10.txt

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: Tig
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 04:35 PM

Polynesia was the parrot but I can't remember the name of the turtle.

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 25 Jan 05 - 08:59 PM

The OWL - Too Too

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question
From: Hollowfox
Date: 26 Jan 05 - 04:59 PM

The turtle's name was Mudface. I did a Google search for "Hugh Lofting" and found http://members.tripod.com/~Puddlby/