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“Shall elephants catch flies, or Hurlo-Thrumbo stain his club with brains of Dagonet the jester?”
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selected vessel names from my fleet of dirigible men-of-war—each abrim with mitrailleuse, canon abusier and divers opticks
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raven_in_the_woods A ridiculous burlesque, which in 1730 had an extraordinary run at the Haymarket theatre. So great was its popularity that a club called “The Hurlo-Thrumbo Society” was formed. The author was Samuel Johnson, a half-mad dancing master, who put this motto on the title-page when the burlesque was printed:
Ye sons of fire, read my Hurlo-Thrumbo,
Turn it betwixt your finger and your thumbo,
And being quite undone, be quite struck dumbo.
-Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 Jul 30, 2010