Colonel Blimp

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Colonel Blimp is a cartoon character created by New Zealand cartoonist David Low. The character was first drawn for Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in April 1934. Blimp is a pompous, irritable, and jingoistic British colonel who is identifiable by his walrus moustache and common use of the interjection "Gad, Sir!" Low claimed that he developed the character, which was named after a term for non-rigid airships, after overhearing two military officers in a Victorian Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks.

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