"Underdog was a bumbler," Mr. Harris told The Fresno Bee in 2007.
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A bumbler so maladroit that even a reluctant defender, South Carolina Rep.
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In three nationally televised debates, he often came across as a blustering, barracking bumbler.
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Levy's character, Johnny, is not the sort of legendary bumbler the actor has played in the past.
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Lucy Davis plays Aunt Hilda as a sweet bumbler whose prodigious powers have been underestimated her whole life.
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I felt powerless, a hopeless bumbler and hick by dint of my own lack of cool at Georgetown dinners.
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Ron is antsier, along for the ride and game to learn the rules but also a bit of a bumbler.
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Reactions from Congress would have you think breaches within Yahoo, the Security and Exchange Commission, and Equifax would contend for biggest bumbler.
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His job is to deliver Brexit and win Mr. Johnson five years more in office, making up for the prime minister's deficiencies as a lazy, inattentive bumbler.
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Their respective critics regard Mr Johnson as an unprincipled bumbler and Mr Davis as a popinjay—"The only man who can swagger while he's sitting down," as one puts it.
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Yes, the show defined Gerald Ford as a bumbler when it debuted in 1975, but in the past several decades, we've largely grown wise to its tricks, with a few exceptions.
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If these in-jokes were an attempt at appeasing fans, they backfire, serving only to remind readers of what might have been: a billy-bumbler reference just makes Oy's absence that much more keenly felt.
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Bridget's charm is rooted in her inability to gracefully achieve what's expected of her; she's a bumbler, and her efforts to conform to the expectations of others usually end up with her embarrassing herself, and possibly others.
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Regal had been getting frequent nosebleeds as a result of a sinus problem that he'd later have surgery for, and the backstage staff wanted to shift Regal's character from the on-screen bumbler to something closer to a vicious, capable veteran.
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During the Iran-Contra scandal, Phil Hartman helmed a brilliant sketch where he played Ronald Reagan as a president who was only pretending to be a senile fool while actually masterminding every aspect of his administration's shady dealings, flipping everyone's perception of Reagan as a cheerful bumbler.
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True, the passages in which suitors must choose among three caskets — gold, silver and lead — to win Portia's hand, are played for robust laughs, with the Prince of Morocco portrayed as a bumbler by Giles Terra, and the Prince of Aragon as a simpering fop by Christopher Logan.
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The oldest of the president's children at 39 years old, the "Fredo" of the Trump family has a prominent position in life thanks to his family fortune—he currently runs the Trump Organization with his brother Eric, and was heavily involved in his dad's presidential campaign, which he still brags about on Instagram—but particularly on social media he's a bumbler and a bully, exactly the kind of person you don't want to have anywhere near power.
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Bumbler Bee-Luxe is a 2D shooter in which the player is a bee, trying to protect its hive from invaders.
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The trial started on October 22 in Golden, Colorado. Margera's attorney argued that his client had been playing his "goofy, outrageous and vulgar" television persona for the young teens, portraying Margera as a "benign bumbler", and arguing that Margera's signature arm movement may have been mistaken for breast fondling.Suspect termed a benign bumbler, RockyMountainNews.com; accessed November 16, 2015.
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Bumbler Bee-Luxe is a multidirectional shooter video game developed and published by American studio Dadgum Games in 1997 for the Macintosh.
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Tilton, page 209. Allan Pinkerton's opinion of him was voiced above, during the Baltimore Plot. Historian Allan Nevins in The War for the Union characterizes Lamon as "a big loquacious bumbler of more self-assurance than discretion".Nevins, page 49.
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The character of Jeeves' master, Bertie Wooster, does not appear. The film is not based on any Jeeves story, and portrays Jeeves as a naive bumbler (which is not how he is portrayed by Wodehouse in the books and short stories about him (see Jeeves).
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433 Fosse said of the main character, Charlie: "That's my part! A swaggering bumbler who thinks he's a ladies' man, and he's not."'Big Deal' pbs.org, accessed August 14, 2009 Big Deal opened on Broadway at the Broadway Theatre on April 10, 1986 and closed on June 8, 1986 after 69 performances and six previews.
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Accessed: May 5, 2016 Caryn James praised Martin Short's efforts in the film, which she found otherwise forgettable, "Against the odds, he makes Pure Luck always painless and sometimes genuinely amusing. Martin Short can do anything, it seems, except find the right movies to star in."James, Caryn. "Review/Film; Martin Short as Another Bumbler".
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Rita Repulsa was the primary antagonist for the first 60 episodes, and was relegated to the position of secondary antagonist after the changing of the zords. She also married Lord Zedd. She is a witch who is the daughter of the first demonic overlord of the M51 Galaxy, Master Vile. Her brother Rito is a bumbler, and completely incompetent.
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This forger was a careless bumbler. That makes it all the more galling how readily the media fell for the scam.Jim Davila, Fake Metal Codices Watch, Paleojudaica, 8 April 2011. On 11 April the Daily Express reported Thonemann's comments together with a response by David Elkington that Thonemann was not a biblical scholar but a Greek scholar.
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Oy is a "billy-bumbler," a strange creature found in Roland Deschain's world. King describes Oy in the "Argument", or foreword, of the fourth book, Wizard and Glass—"Bumblers, which look like a combination of badger, raccoon, and dog, have a limited speaking ability". Elsewhere, bumblers are described as "a combination raccoon and woodchuck, with a little dachshund thrown in." At one point, Eddie calls Oy "a fucked-up weasel".
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In the episode "Autoboot Camp", Bumblebee has flashbacks to his days as an Autobot trainee. During training, he met Bulkhead, Longarm, Ironhide, and Wasp. The group was under the command of Drill Sergeant Sentinel Minor, who gave Bumblebee his name (after calling him a "bumbler"). Bumblebee would often say or do the wrong thing, resulting in the entire platoon receiving Transformation push-ups as a result, which made him unpopular with Wasp and Ironhide.
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Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter (Bob Hastings, a veteran of The Phil Silvers Show)-Binghamton's sycophantic bumbler aide who tries to be military, but is too inept to be taken seriously. He is slow to catch on and does not know when to keep his mouth shut. Like Parker, he often knocks down, or causes Binghamton to be knocked down because of his clumsiness and dimwittedness. However, again like Parker, Carpenter is also subjected to Binghamton's tirades.
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Jake, with some timely assistance from Roland, fights through them to reach the door. Once the boy is in Mid-World again, Roland's and Jake's memories are merged and their descent into insanity abated. On the journey, Jake befriends a billy-bumbler who he calls Oy, who provides comfort for the boy on his quest. While crossing the desolate city of Lud, Jake is kidnapped by a deranged resident of the city.
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Brown campaigned on working to address poverty and problems with Muni. He called Jordan the "inept bumbler" and criticized his leadership. Jordan criticized Brown for his relations with special interests during his time in the State Assembly. Brown easily defeated Jordan in the runoff. Mayor Brown signing legislation in 2002, flanked by Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, and Gordon England Brown's inaugural celebration included an open invitation party with 10,000 attendees and local restaurants providing 10,000 meals to the homeless.
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This minor planet was named in memory of American actor and singer David Daniel Kaminsky (1911–1987), known by his screen name as "Danny Kaye". Kaye starred in popular feature films such as The Court Jester (1956), typically playing the role of a gentle bumbler who triumphs eventually. The minor planet's name was suggested by G. V. Williams, who made the identifications for this body. The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 June 1997 ().
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Having several full lives to live does not hamper Donald's ability to live adventures on his own: he still lives adventures with his uncle Scrooge and his nephews (often acting as a reluctant bumbler, a ballast to the enthusiasm of his nephews and the wanderlust of his uncle), and he lived a star-crossed love story with a princess from another planet, Reginella. Despite Reginella leaving a deep trace in Donald's heart, he is still depicted as extremely faithful to Daisy, with a small hiccup deriving by Daisy Duck having a secret identity on her own (Paperinika), with Paperinik and Paperinika, both unaware of their secret identities, cultivating a permanent status of belligerent tension. He also keeps a cheerful rivalry with his neighbour Bum Bum Ghigno, more a bumbler and a nuisance than he is, but still a good person at heart. The Italian rendition of Donald Duck seldom, if ever, goes by his first name, having everyone, including his nephews, Daisy and Uncle Scrooge, address him as Paperino (his Italian surname).
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In Murder Machine, authors Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain described him as a "stumblebum". He did not suffer from dyslexia like his older brother, but was thought to be considerably less acute. He managed to successfully manage a Flatlands, Brooklyn automotive repair shop on Glenwood Road in Flatlands located directly around the corner from his brother's gasoline station, body shop and auto repair center. While his brother Frederick was offbeat with his eccentricities and idiosyncrasies but competent, Richard DiNome was a "whining bumbler".
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Television commercials that he made throughout the 1960s and 1970s included Excedrin and Bic Banana Ink Crayons. From 1968 to 1970, he appeared as the constantly flustered bumbler Claymore Gregg on the television series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, for which he received an Emmy nomination. He also appeared as a regular on The Dean Martin Show and had multiple guest appearances on various television series, including McMillan & Wife, The Patty Duke Show, Here's Lucy, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Love Boat, and Love, American Style.
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He did not make an impact in films until the release of The Count of Monte Cristo, which starred Robert Donat, in 1934. His filmography includes nearly 100 films, with his best known roles as a stereotypical bumbler and as a pompous snob. He could also be villainous, as he was when he played Baron Danglars in the 1934 film version of The Count of Monte Cristo, and was a favorite of such celebrated comedy directors as Preston Sturges and Frank Capra, with whom he made several appearances.
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George Norton is a low-level bumbler who works for Chicago crime boss Charley Barker. A well-dressed mama's boy, George is in good standing with Barker, even gaining a promotion, until an incident that costs the mob a million dollars. George is indirectly responsible when Archie, a mob courier, is killed at a barbecue. After the funeral, Barker instructs George to dig up Archie's body because $500,000 was stuffed inside the lining of each side of a blue suit that an unwitting George personally chose for the burial.
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In The Waste Lands, Jake dreams of running after Oy the billy- bumbler. who heads to the train tracks ready to leap up and fight Blaine the Mono head on as it barrels down the track.The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands The method of travelling quickly using a parallel world is also used to good effect in The Talisman, a novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub, where the characters 'flip' between worlds and can reduce their journey times in the 'real world' by travelling for part of the time in the 'parallel world'.
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Irene is a middle-aged housewife from Staten Island, somewhat neglected by her wealthy husband, who meets Roland, Jake, and Oy in Stoneham, Maine of the Keystone World in the year 1999. She volunteers to drive the gunslinger's party to Lovell, where they narrowly manage to save Stephen King's life, with Jake sacrificing his own life in the process. Tassenbaum then drives Roland and Oy to New York (making love with Roland along the way), where the gunslinger and the bumbler meet with the board of Tet Corp. before returning to Mid-World.
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Keats' posthumous reputation mixed the reviewers' caricature of the simplistic bumbler with the image of the hyper-sensitive genius killed by high feeling, which Shelley later portrayed. The Victorian sense of poetry as the work of indulgence and luxuriant fancy offered a schema into which Keats was posthumously fitted. Marked as the standard-bearer of sensory writing, his reputation grew steadily and remarkably. His work had the full support of the influential Cambridge Apostles, whose members included the young Tennyson,Tennyson was writing Keats-style poetry in the 1830s and was being critically attacked in the same manner as his predecessor.
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Initially titled Washington Tubbs II, it originally was a gag-a-day daily strip which focused on the mundane misadventures of the title character, a bespectacled bumbler who ran a store. However, Crane soon switched from gag-a-day to continuity storylines. He reinvented the strip after its 12th week to make it the first true action/adventure comic strip, initially by having Tubbs leave the store and join a circus. To research this, Crane spent many days with a circus, even incorporating characters in the strip based directly on the circus performers he knew personally.
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In September 1969, after the death of actress Marion Lorne, who played Aunt Clara, Ghostley joined Bewitched as a semiregular in the role of Esmeralda, a shy witch who served as a maid and babysitter to the Stephens' household. Ghostley's character of Esmeralda was created to replace Aunt Clara's role as a bumbler of magic. (Coincidentally, Ghostley and Lorne shared a brief scene together in the 1967 film The Graduate, a few months prior to Lorne's death and before Ghostley was cast in Bewitched.) Ghostley's Esmeralda appeared in 15 episodes of Bewitched between 1969 and 1972.
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Her idea would feature Beatty and a co-star as a mediocre singer-songwriter duo who would go to Morocco and get caught in the crossfire between the Central Intelligence Agency and a local left-wing guerrilla group. She thought it would be funny to cast Beatty against type as the Hope part, the bumbler of the duo, while the co-star, possibly Dustin Hoffman, would play the self-assured ladies' man that Crosby usually portrayed. Hoffman, who was also indebted to May for her extensive uncredited rewrite on Tootsie, initially turned it down due to "misgivings". At Beatty's request, the two met with May and Hoffman's creative confidant, playwright Murray Schisgal.
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Later, in the 6th book, this is confirmed when the Tet Corporation forms as the association of "Deschain, Dean, Dean, Chambers, and Oy." Oy develops emotions and even a sense of humanity beyond that of his ability to replicate some words that the others speak. Oy is often referred as the smartest bumbler that characters have seen since the world had moved on. Oy provides a much-needed shelter from the harsh nature of the quest for Jake, often playing with him or providing moments of lightheartedness to the ka-tet. His deep loyalty to his friend saves Jake's life several times, and he remains part of Roland's ka-tet even after the boy dies, as a final request from Jake.
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Loosely based upon the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, this was an adventure segment involving balloonist Phineas "Finny" Fogg Jr. (voiced by Bruce Watson) is conceived as the great-great grandson from America of the main character Phileas Fogg in the novel. He and reporter teenagers Jenny Trent (voiced by Janet Waldo) and Hoppy (voiced by Don Messick) set out on a globetrotting adventure to travel around the world in 79 days and beat the original record set by Finny's father. The trio are in competition for both the record and a £1,000,000 prize against the sinister Crumden (voiced by Daws Butler), who supposedly was the butler of the original Phineas. Crumden is aided by his idiotic chauffeur Bumbler (voiced by Allan Melvin) and his pet monkey Smirky (voiced by Don Messick).
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" Journalist and Buenos Aires bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires Michael Casey reviewed Exposing the Real Che Guevara in his 2009 book Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image. Casey described it as "an art form of mixing frustration with ridicule." Casey said that Fontova's prose was a marriage of Ann Coulter with the Gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson, and that Fontova "basically yells at his readers, mixing a sarcastic wit with a touch of self-deprecation until it is overwhelmed by disdain for his opponents." Lastly, Casey observed that Fontova often "lathers himself into a rage" when it comes to the issue of Che Guevara, noting that his barrage of hyperbole leads him to describe Guevara as an "assassin", "sadist", "bumbler", "fool", and "whimpering- sniveling-blubbering coward" who is "revered by millions of imbeciles.
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After Mrs Todd returns from one of her travels, hanging from the front grill of the car is a " horrifying rodent-like creature" described in the book as "something that came from a mating of a woodchuck and a weasel... there was claws sprung from the pads of its feet like a cat's claws only longer. It had big yellowy eyes....and long thin teeth looking like needles sticking out of its mouth." "it had hung its own self on by the teeth....it jumped at the Go-Devil when it saw it was about to be run down, trying to bite it to death." This description bears a striking similarity to the billy-bumbler of The Dark Tower series, which is also described with yellow or gold ringed eyes, with sharp teeth and similar to a woodchuck and a raccoon.
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