gabooches – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Oz High, Oz Low, A-Whaling We Will Go

Lucky Bucky in Oz, by John R. Neill – I was thinking that maybe I should save this one for its eightieth anniversary next year, but I decided to go ahead and reread it anyway. It’s my favorite of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Characters, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged davy jones the wooden whale, emerald city, fish, gabooches, j. l. bell, jack pumpkinhead, kaliko, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, mombi, nome kingdom, nonestic ocean, scarecrow, the cowardly lion of oz, tin woodman, whales |

Etymology in Oz

I bought a few old Baum Bugle issues at OzCon in Portland, and they have some interesting content. There was apparently a sometime recurring feature called “Footnotes to Oz” that explained names in the Oz series, written by Jerry Tobias. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Characters, Etymology, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bell-snickle, beowulf, betsy bobbin, boolooroo, christopher gise, corabia, dorothy and the wizard in oz, footnotes to oz, fred meyer, gabooches, gilbert and sullivan, gillikins, isle of phreex, jack pumpkinhead of oz, jellia jamb, jerry tobias, karwan bashi, mandrakes, mangaboos, martin gardner, menankypoo, michael patrick hearn, mogodore, munchkins, nikobo, nikobob, oogaboo, orcs, orks, para bruin, pastoria, pingaree, quiberon, rak, rocs, salye soforth, samandra, tarara, tattypoo, the baum bugle, the mikado, the tin woodman of oz, tik-tok of oz, tippetarius, wizard of oz, woot the wanderer |

Gabbin’ About Gabooches

The Gabooches are characters in John R. Neill’s Lucky Bucky in Oz, but it’s not entirely clear what a Gabooch actually is. They first show up when Bucky throws enchanted doorknobs at the Nomes, and they promptly turn into four … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, John R. Neill, Oz, Oz Authors | Tagged davy jones the wooden whale, flummux, gabooches, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, richard wagner, scarecrow, tin woodman |