Great Googly Moogly! (Rolling Stone Article)

[Nick Pedicini]

Well I don't know about YOU folks, but when The Silver Surfer himself, Mr.
Chris Carter, says something like "...they're (Scully and Mulder) going to
lie there sort of googly eyed in the morning, and those aliens are just
going to be running amok" I say to MYSELF that the image of our two heros
recumbant abed entwined in the sweaty langour of a post-coital embrace
would be worth the ensuing ravagement of the countryside by the likes of
Pfaster, Tooms, Aboah, Roche, Snauze, The Swartzenalien and Cancer Man.
Bring on the Morleys! Bring on the shampoo! Unstop those chimneys! What are
a few guest stars and bit players in the face of the cataclymic disgorging
of our heros pent up lust!

NJP

[Whitney Anne Fitzgerald]

This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly Moogly"
come from? My fiance says it all the time, and I *know* he doesn't read
this newsgroup, so he couldn't have posted the original message, so he
obviously didn't make up the phrase.

Whitney (who found a copy of "Tattooed Love Boys" and has been driving
her neighbors crazy for the last 3 hours)

[Pagan Wench]

Whitney Anne Fitzgerald <whit...@servtech.com> wrote in article

> This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly Moogly"
> come from? My fiance says it all the time, and I *know* he doesn't read
> this newsgroup, so he couldn't have posted the original message, so he
> obviously didn't make up the phrase.
>

I'm not 100% certain about the origins of "great Googly Moogly", but the
first time I heard this phrase was in a commercial for Snickers candy
bars. In the advertisment, a man had just finished painting the logo for a
football team in one of the endzones, when a football player comes up to
him and says: "Great job, but who are the Chefs?" The artist, realizing
that it should be "Chiefs" (as in Kansas City Chiefs), says "Great Googly
Moogly!", and breaks out his snicker bar.

My fiance uses this phrase quite often also, and it drives me nutters!
*grin*

Regards,
The Pagan Wench
tr...@flash.net

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[Don Semmens]

In article <32FBFC...@servtech.com>,

Whitney Anne Fitzgerald <whit...@servtech.com> wrote:
>This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly Moogly"
>come from? My fiance says it all the time, and I *know* he doesn't read
>this newsgroup, so he couldn't have posted the original message, so he
>obviously didn't make up the phrase.
>

>Whitney (who found a copy of "Tattooed Love Boys" and has been driving
>her neighbors crazy for the last 3 hours)

I believe the phrase "great Googly Moogly" was coined by composer
Frank Zappa from his album "Apostophe". The "hit" from the early
1970's "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" contained that phrase.

Anybody know of an earlier reference?

--
"And when I sweep my floor, all I've done is sweep my floor. But, when I
help you clean up your place, I am helping you." Rev. Will Dexter (Babylon 5)

Don Semmens <*>, Richmond, VA, h--d...@cris.com, w--da...@mwbb.com

[Tom Running]

Pagan Wench wrote:
>
> Whitney Anne Fitzgerald <whit...@servtech.com> wrote in article

>
> > This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly Moogly"
> > come from? My fiance says it all the time, and I *know* he doesn't read
> > this newsgroup, so he couldn't have posted the original message, so he
> > obviously didn't make up the phrase.
> >
>

> I'm not 100% certain about the origins of "great Googly Moogly", but the
> first time I heard this phrase was in a commercial for Snickers candy
> bars. In the advertisment, a man had just finished painting the logo for a
> football team in one of the endzones, when a football player comes up to
> him and says: "Great job, but who are the Chefs?" The artist, realizing
> that it should be "Chiefs" (as in Kansas City Chiefs), says "Great Googly
> Moogly!", and breaks out his snicker bar.
>

I believe the first use was by Frank Zappa, in the song advising not to
eat the yellow snow.

--
Tom Running
tom...@execpc.com

"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!" - H. Simpson

[Steve Salaba]

I first heard the phrase in a 50's song called "Stranded in the Jungle".

"Great googly-moogly! Gemme outta here!"

Steve
phil...@net-link.net

[Holm Alone]

This goes back much farther. There was a comic strip character waaaaayy
back, that my parents, now in their 70's, would have read, named Barney
Google. There was even a little novelty song about him, "Barney Google,
with the goo-goo-googly eyes..." He had big, round... well, googly
eyes. He, or one of the other characters in the strip said, "Great Googly
Moogly!" as an exclamation.

Lisa

On 8 Feb 1997, Don Semmens wrote:

> In article <32FBFC...@servtech.com>,

> Whitney Anne Fitzgerald <whit...@servtech.com> wrote:
> >This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly Moogly"
> >come from? My fiance says it all the time, and I *know* he doesn't read
> >this newsgroup, so he couldn't have posted the original message, so he
> >obviously didn't make up the phrase.
>

[Whitney Anne Fitzgerald]

Pagan Wench wrote:
>
> Whitney Anne Fitzgerald <whit...@servtech.com> wrote in article

>
> > This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly Moogly"
> > come from? My fiance says it all the time, and I *know* he doesn't read
> > this newsgroup, so he couldn't have posted the original message, so he
> > obviously didn't make up the phrase.

> My fiance uses this phrase quite often also, and it drives me nutters!
> *grin*
> Regards,
> The Pagan Wench
> tr...@flash.net

Gosh, I hope we don't have the same fiance....that would make things
really, really awkward...

Whitney (has your fiance said anything about being busy the 18th of
October?)

[Zawilski]

I think you can both relax! This phrase is used in a commercial (for
what I can't remember - some commercial, huh?) Anyway, it's the one
where the guy misspells the football team's name in the endzone, and
when he realizes it he says "Great Googly Moogly!"

Iris

[John Drohan]

Zawilski wrote:

> I think you can both relax! This phrase is used in a commercial (for
> what I can't remember - some commercial, huh?) Anyway, it's the one
> where the guy misspells the football team's name in the endzone, and
> when he realizes it he says "Great Googly Moogly!"
>
> Iris

It's for Snickers. Not going anywhere for a while????

[Mike "LongHorn" Davis]

Hey-

    I must be dating myself to say I remember, but I simply can't let all this confusion go on any longer. The origin of 'Great Googlely Mooglely' (thats how it 

was pronouned also!) is the one and only Frank Zappa. He first used it in the 

infamous song 'Don't eat Yellow Snow' which I believe was on the 'Apostrophe'

Album. That's right, album- there were no CD's then and cassettes were rare.

All of the other uses and such are copies and references to the original, intentional or not. Great newsgroup guys, you just don't listen to old Frank Zappa.

    All the best, Mike Davis 

[KF6IIU]

No! Can't be true! Scully and I have big plans to retire on her
disability pension and open a store in the Nevada desert selling
Area 51 T-shirts to tourists. Mulder drives up every weekend from LA,
taking time off from his celebrity bodyguard business, bringing his
mega-babe blond girlfriend-of-the-week that be picked up in the UCLA
library. The four of us have great adventures together.

-w

(who did not become a dedicated viewer until this season, but is
hopelessly hooked nonetheless. Fox has really got me gluedtothetube
Sundays, with King of the Hill, Simpsons, and almost every week, a
cheesy real-life-disaster-cop show. Wow.)

[Sensation]

"Pagan Wench" <tr...@flash.net> wrote:
>Whitney Anne Fitzgerald <whit...@servtech.com> wrote in article

>> This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly Moogly"
>> come from?

>I'm not 100% certain about the origins of "great Googly Moogly", but the

>first time I heard this phrase was in a commercial for Snickers candy
>bars.

I am also not 100%, but I use that term often and it's because I hear
it on Frank Zappa's song, "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow". He exclaims
"Great Googily Moogily!" because the eskimo is upset that someone had
just 'deprived him of his sight' by stuffing yellow snow crystals into
his eyes:)

And hey... speaking of Zappa...here is my shameless plug for my
homepage: I named my XF webpage after one of his songs.. check it
out:

Sensation's COSMIK DEBRIS:
http://www.pathcom.com/~nooger/sensation.html

[neos...@aol.com]

In article <32FFDF...@gate.net>, Dave Schulman <caps...@gate.net>
writes:

>Zawilski wrote:
>>
>> Whitney Anne Fitzgerald wrote:
>> >

>> > Pagan Wench wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Whitney Anne Fitzgerald <whit...@servtech.com> wrote in article
>> > >
>> > > > This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly
Moogly"

>> > > > come from? My fiance says it all the time, and I *know* he
doesn't
>read
>> > > > this newsgroup, so he couldn't have posted the original message,
so
>he
>> > > > obviously didn't make up the phrase.
>> > > My fiance uses this phrase quite often also, and it drives me
nutters!
>> > > *grin*
>> > > Regards,
>> > > The Pagan Wench
>> > > tr...@flash.net
>> >
>> > Gosh, I hope we don't have the same fiance....that would make things
>> > really, really awkward...
>> >
>> > Whitney (has your fiance said anything about being busy the 18th of
>> > October?)
>>

>> I think you can both relax! This phrase is used in a commercial (for
>> what I can't remember - some commercial, huh?) Anyway, it's the one
>> where the guy misspells the football team's name in the endzone, and
>> when he realizes it he says "Great Googly Moogly!"
>

> The late great Frank Zappa used this utterance 20+ years ago on
>his album _Apostrophe / Overnite Sensation_. I think it's in the
>song "Nanook Rubs It".

Sorry kiddies, but this phrase was used way prior to the Snickers
commercial and prior to Zappa, in the song Ball of Confusion by the
Temptations in 1970. I am listening to the original '45 as I type this:

Great Googly Moogly
Can you hear me sock it to ya, singin'
Ball of Confusion
That's what the world is today
Hey, hey.

Great Googly Moogly, of course, referring to the Big Guy Upstairs. Pretty
groovy, huh?

Incidentally, I was alive and listening to music in 1970. Everybody ready
for milk and cookies? 'Cos Granny's about ready to take a nap!

Debbie =)

[Mark Rajesh Das]

John Drohan (pro...@thecia.net) wrote:
: Zawilski wrote:

: > I think you can both relax! This phrase is used in a commercial (for

: > what I can't remember - some commercial, huh?) Anyway, it's the one
: > where the guy misspells the football team's name in the endzone, and
: > when he realizes it he says "Great Googly Moogly!"

: >
: > Iris

: It's for Snickers. Not going anywhere for a while????

... "Who am I?"
"You're the coach"
"And who are you?"
"I'm Batman!"

Damn funniest string of commercials since those ESPN "this is sportscenter"
ones which were the funniest since those "Got Milk" earlier days
commercials. I'll bitch slap anyone who brings up those Carl's Jr.
commercials....

Now back to the files.
"TM"

[S. Daluson]

I think it comes from that Snickers commerical, where the old man is
painting the endzone, and mispells "chiefs" (spells it "chefs") and the
football player asks "who are the chefs?"...the old man says "great googly
moogly"

well, that's where I heard it from =)
Sandy
san...@u.washington.edu

On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Sensation wrote:

> "Pagan Wench" <tr...@flash.net> wrote:
> >Whitney Anne Fitzgerald <whit...@servtech.com> wrote in article
>
> >> This is totally off the subject, but where does "great Googly Moogly"
> >> come from?
>

[jal...@epix.net]

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Speak for yourself..........

Luv, Susie-Cream-Cheeze.