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Tintin wobbler?!

marsbar
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#1 · Posted: 24 Feb 2004 03:25

Tintin wobbles?!
This is a record found in Bowker's Global Books in Print database:
Title: TINTIN WOBBLER
Author: HERGE
Publication Date: December 1993
Publisher: Mammoth
ISBN: 0-7497-1432-8
Item Status: Active Record
Binding Format: Trade Cloth

Tintinrulz
Member

#2 · Posted: 24 Feb 2004 08:15

What's a wobbler?

marsbar
Moderator

#3 · Posted: 24 Feb 2004 09:37

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a wobbler is a person who wobbles! Hahaha!

Tintinrulz
Member

#4 · Posted: 24 Feb 2004 09:50

Hey that's a good one (laughs).
By the way, why are you named after a chocolate bar?

marsbar
Moderator

#5 · Posted: 24 Feb 2004 10:16

Hey that's a good one (laughs).

Isn't it a scream! I do wonder if such a book really existed. It could be a data entry error, an April Fool's joke... but you would not expect that sort of thing (glaring booboo) from Global Books in Print - one of the tools libraries rely on to make purchases! Anyhow, if anyone knows more about this title, please share!

By the way, why are you named after a chocolate bar?

Back in the Middle Ages when I was at primary school, everyone in class had a nickname; I think other pupils started calling me 'marsbar' because I was teh sweetest person at school! Nah, it was more likely because of my surname (Mar).

tybaltstone
Member

#6 · Posted: 24 Feb 2004 11:10

Amazon lists the 'Wobbler' but gives no clues as to what it is. Published by Egmont in the US...

Intriguing!

First one to post here what the Tintin Wobbler really is - in some detail and preferably with some kind of proof (if that's possible) - no guesses and no generalisations (eg. "a book"), I will send, postally, free of any charge, a drawing (by me, sorry, not HergÃ©) of Tintin actually wobbling.

A little bit of fun!

- Garen.

waveofplague
Member

#7 · Posted: 20 Apr 2007 21:04

By the beard of the prophet, what on earth is the TIN TIN WOBBLER? No one ever knew!.... We never found out...! A lost mystery!.....

labrador road 26
Member

#8 · Posted: 20 Apr 2007 22:21

Wobbler in swedish is a sort fishing-bait. It looks like a small plastic fish and floats, when it is reeled in it dives and is mostly used for catching pikes or other sweetwater fish of similar size. I guess it got its name from the wobbling motion it does when reeled in.

Sorry if this has nothing to do with our hero.

Smidgeroo
Member

#9 · Posted: 4 Jun 2007 08:34

And here I thought we were talking about a bobble-head doll, which I'd eagerly buy up and immediately stick on the dashboard of my car if such a thing existed. I think Tintin's round little head would translate nicely to a bobblehead, teehee. :D

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