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Colonel Blimp
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Colonel Blimp
Colonel Blimp
is a
British
cartoon character by
cartoonist
David Low
, first drawn for
Lord Beaverbrook
's
London Evening Standard
in April 1934. Blimp is pompous, irascible,
jingoistic
and
stereotypically
British. Low said he developed the character after overhearing two military men in a
Turkish bath
declare that
cavalry
officers should be entitled to wear their
spurs
inside
tanks
. The character was named after the
barrage balloon
, which was known as a blimp.
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Colonel Blimp (disambiguation)
Colonel Blimp
is a British cartoon character.
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