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25 Jan 05 - 11:02 AM (#1388052) Subject: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: MMario 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? |
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25 Jan 05 - 11:37 AM (#1388091) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: Amos Daumefino, sir! A |
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25 Jan 05 - 11:39 AM (#1388095) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: GUEST,MMario no, I'm pretty sure that wasn't it. |
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25 Jan 05 - 11:56 AM (#1388113) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: GUEST,MMario ah-hah! Dr. Doolittle and the Secret lake! mudface. |
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25 Jan 05 - 12:03 PM (#1388121) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: GUEST,MMario 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; |
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25 Jan 05 - 12:06 PM (#1388127) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: GUEST,milk monitor pipinella ? |
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25 Jan 05 - 12:16 PM (#1388136) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: GUEST,MMario 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. |
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25 Jan 05 - 12:35 PM (#1388161) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: Micca MMario, you could try Powells Here They do 2nd hand books and have a good many listed |
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25 Jan 05 - 01:06 PM (#1388198) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: Bill D 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 |
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25 Jan 05 - 04:35 PM (#1388418) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: Tig Polynesia was the parrot but I can't remember the name of the turtle. |
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25 Jan 05 - 08:59 PM (#1388649) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: GUEST,.gargoyle The OWL - Too Too
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26 Jan 05 - 04:59 PM (#1389456) Subject: RE: BS: Dr. Doolittle trivia question From: Hollowfox The turtle's name was Mudface. I did a Google search for "Hugh Lofting" and found http://members.tripod.com/~Puddlby/ |