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* Cosmo Allegretti as Mr. Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose ( both of which he also created ), Dennis the Apprentice, Miss Frog, Mr. Whispers, Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock, Uncle Ralph, was the voice of Aniforms puppet TV Fred ( a live-action on-screen puppet that appeared behind the blackboard in the Treasure House ), and was the artist behind the Magic Drawing Board.
* Pongo Twistleton, book character from P. G. Wodehouse's Uncle Fred stories from the 1930s to 1960s
Among other relatives of Fred include: Giggles Flintstone, a rich, eccentric practical joker whose jokes drive Fred into a mad rage ; Uncle Tex, Fred's rich Texan uncle ; Tumbleweed ( who, strangely enough, resembles Uncle Tex ) and Mary Lou Jim, Fred's rich Texan cousins ; and Rocky Flintstone, Fred's grandfather, who was a veteran of Stone World War One.
At 10, Farmer's Uncle Fred, Aunt Helen, and cousin Muriel had come down to visit from New York.
On the way back, his father told him, " I had to tell that lie about your Uncle Fred.
It features the mischievous Uncle Fred, who had previously appeared in Uncle Fred in the Springtime ( 1939 ).
Frederick Altamont Cornwalis Twistleton, fifth Earl of Ickenham, known to all as Uncle Fred, is on the loose once again ( Lady Ickenham having decamped for a wedding in Trinidad ), and Reginald (" Pongo ") Twistleton, his long-suffering nephew ( and Drones Club member ) has every right to be petrified.
Uncle Fred has just arrived at Ashenden Manor, home of Sir Aylmer Bostock, Pongo's future father-in-law.
Uncle Fred sees these not as reverses, but as opportunities to show his stuff.
Unfortunately, the local Constable, Harold Potter, happens to have grown up with Major Plank ( and also happens to remember arresting Uncle Fred and Pongo at the dog races under the names of Edwin Smith of Nasturtium Road, East Dulwich ).
The story has also been adapted as a serial in six half-hour episodes for BBC Radio 4, starring Richard Briers as Uncle Fred and Hugh Grant as Pongo, with narration by Paul Eddington.
Uncle Fred and Pongo would return in Cocktail Time ( 1958 ) and Service With a Smile ( 1961 ).
Major Brabazon-Plank, later Major Plank, is a recurring fictional character from the Uncle Fred and Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being a famed explorer who led an expedition up the Amazon but is afraid of babies.
Visiting Ashenden Manor, he finds Uncle Fred usurping his identity.
Uncle Fred and Major Plank were acquaintance in their young school days.
* Uncle Dynamite ( 1948 )-an Uncle Fred novel
Frederick Altamont Cornwallis Twistleton, 5th Earl of Ickenham, commonly known as Uncle Fred, is a fictional character who appears in short stories and novels written by P. G. Wodehouse between 1935 and 1961.
The Uncle Fred stories comprise one short and four novels, two of which are set at Blandings Castle:

Uncle and Springtime
* Uncle Fred in the Springtime ( 1939 )-a Blandings story
He buttles on quietly through Uncle Fred in the Springtime and Full Moon, but returns to the fore in Pigs Have Wings, where not only does he celebrate a birthday, but he is also called on once again to assist in the affairs of the Empress and her challengers, feeding one of Parsloe-Parsloe's pigs when it has been kidnapped by Galahad, and moving it when its location has been discovered by the enemy camp.
* Uncle Fred in the Springtime ( 1939 )
Unable to stay away, he returns again in Uncle Fred in the Springtime, where he is employed by the grouchy Duke of Dunstable, who visits the castle as a friend of Lady Constance.
Pongo Twistleton appears in the novels Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Uncle Dynamite, Cocktail Time, and Service With a Smile as well as in the short stories " Uncle Fred Flits By " and " Tried in the Furnace ".
* Uncle Fred in the Springtime ( 1939 )
In Uncle Fred in the Springtime, she is once again taken captive, and hidden in a bathroom by the Duke of Dunstable, but flees when Lord Bosham lets off a shutgun in her vicinity.
During the events of Uncle Fred in the Springtime, he is impersonated by Lord Ickenham, who borrows his identity to take lodgings in Blandings so as to resolve a series of complications.
* Uncle Fred in the Springtime

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And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.
Uncle Randolph and Joel had replanted the bottom lands with difficulty, for more of the slaves, including Annie, had sneaked off when the soldiers broke camp.
At a time when most movie-related publications glorified the stars in front of the camera, " Uncle Forry ", as he was referred to by many of his fans, promoted the behind-the-scenes artists involved in the magic of movies.
Uncle Peter looked after Melanie and Charles Hamilton when they were young.
Uncle is nearly asleep when he feels the bugs walking on his nose.
Published when the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was a bestseller, Northup's book sold 30, 000 copies within three years.
References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled " The Man from My Uncle ", References in other televison shows have continued over the years, including a 2011 episode of Mad Men, " The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ".
* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.
However, while both Boss Hogg and Uncle Jesse would scowl at the mention of the other's name, the two enjoyed a lifelong " friendship " of sorts, with one helping the other when in desperate need.
Stowe had stated that her sons had wept when she first read them the scene of Uncle Tom's death, but after Baldwin's essay it ceased being respectable to accept the melodrama of the Uncle Tom story.
The term " Uncle Tom " is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when that person perceives their own lower-class status based on race.
Stowe's Uncle Tom was a muscular and virile man who refused to obey when ordered to beat other slaves ; the stock character of minstrel shows became a shuffling asexual individual with a receding hairline and graying hair.
Polly and Digory grab her and put on their magic rings to take her out of their world, dragging with them Uncle Andrew, Frank the cab-driver, and Frank's horse, since all were touching one another when Digory and Polly grabbed their rings.
Crane wrote his first known story, " Uncle Jake and the Bell Handle ", when he was 14 years old.
Uncle Remus is also in the vicinity, and he is shocked when Br ' er Rabbit and several of the other characters from his stories appear in front of them and interact with the children.
He enthusiastically abandons his bar, its regular customers, and his friends when a better opportunity comes along, such as the drink " The Flaming Moe ", the opening of his postmodern bar " m ", the conversion of his bar into a family-themed restaurant called Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag and a British themed pub with Marge called the Nag and Weasel.
Eva enters the narrative when Uncle Tom is traveling via steamship to New Orleans to be sold, and he rescues the 5 or 6 year-old girl from drowning.
Writing in 2001, legal scholar Richard Posner described Uncle Tom's Cabin as part of the mediocre list of canonical works that emerges when political criteria are imposed on literature.
She is depicted performing a stage version of Uncle Tom's Cabin with her live-action friends when she falls unconscious.
The album's release was delayed when the band ran into conflict with their label over the content of songs such as " We Can Be Together " and " Uncle Sam Blues " and the planned title of the album, Volunteers of Amerika.
She confirms her suspicions when she sees that the initials engraved inside the emerald ring Uncle Charlie gave her match those of one of the recent victims.
Beck's painting inspired by Carl Barks ' unused cover sketch for the story " The Mines of King Solomon " ( Uncle Scrooge # 19, Sept .- Nov. 1957 ) was used as the cover when the story was reprinted in Gladstone Comic Album # 1 ( 1987 ).
It was revealed that when she was younger she worked with her Uncle and learned how to perform and identify numerous scams.

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