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...songs a year. Again Billy got the jump on the competition, analyzed every novelty song of the day. All of them, he decided, had a silly syllable, and of all the syllables, the sound of oo was the silliest. Rose went to work and produced Barney Google, "with the goo-goo-googly eyes." The song was a hit, whereupon Billy shortened his name to Rose and lengthened his list of melodies: Without a Song, More Than You Know, That Old Gang of Mine, It's Only a Paper Moon...
Twitchedy, twatchedy, flippedy, flappedy, flong your own thong tong, snickety poo. Griff, graff, gobble, gobble, ghrrr, gar, gorrr, goo goo goo. Wap, wap, flaptrap, wonk wonk weee. Zap, zap, backtrack, zonk zonk zeee. Wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight...
Like many new products, it came about almost by accident. Norman Stingley, a chemist for Bettis Rubber Co. in Whittier, Calif., was playing around with a high-resiliency synthetic rubber in his spare time. He fashioned a crude ball of the goo by compressing it under some 3,500 lbs. of pressure per square inch, discovered that it had a fantastic bounce. But Bettis Co. was not interested, mostly because the ball tended to fall apart after five minutes. So Stingley took it to Wham O Manufacturing Co. in San Gabriel, Calif., the company that made juvenile history by producing...
...their own progeny, and mates worse than death. But in the '40s and '50s, the customers got bored with movies that cried werewolf, got fascinated with atomic-age monsters like The Blob, The Thing, The Great Green Og, and a colossal purple caterpillar filled with green radioactive goo. In the '60s, the fashion in fright has become eclectic: mad scientists, mole people, teen-aged werewolves and creatures from outer space have all done a bloody good business. And recently the technicians of terror have also produced a peculiar breed of hybrid horrors that mingle maniacs and muscles...
...muddy field made smooth passwork an achievement in itself. Players got mud in their sticks, and often lofted gobs of goo along with the ball after scooping it off the ground. The midfield play was especially sloppy, and not altogether gentle. On several occasions the officials allowed the pushing and shoving over loose balls to go a bit far, and there will be plenty of sore ribs for a few days...