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:::Researching 1930s comics is a honorable endeavour. I will refrain from criticism henceforth. My last two cents, though, since "hooey" is a joke word, kind of like Watterson's "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie", how can you be sure that it's the actual Basenji that those fictional characters are talking about, and not, say, the undocumented common ancestor of the Basenji and the Dingo? --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] ([[User talk:Geyser|talk]]) 22:33, 7 June 2020 (CEST) | :::Researching 1930s comics is a honorable endeavour. I will refrain from criticism henceforth. My last two cents, though, since "hooey" is a joke word, kind of like Watterson's "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie", how can you be sure that it's the actual Basenji that those fictional characters are talking about, and not, say, the undocumented common ancestor of the Basenji and the Dingo? --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] ([[User talk:Geyser|talk]]) 22:33, 7 June 2020 (CEST) | ||
:::P.S. A propos mind-blowing stuff written NN years ago, I'd (re)recommend Lem's ''Summa Technologiae'' (1964) as a must-read, but AFAIK it still doesn't have an English translation. --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] ([[User talk:Geyser|talk]]) 22:56, 7 June 2020 (CEST) | :::P.S. A propos mind-blowing stuff written NN years ago, I'd (re)recommend Lem's ''Summa Technologiae'' (1964) as a must-read, but AFAIK it still doesn't have an English translation. --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] ([[User talk:Geyser|talk]]) 22:56, 7 June 2020 (CEST) | ||
::::"Hooey" is a slang term meaning "nonsense", not to be confused with the first name Huey. But in this case the name is onomatopoetic, as the Basenji makes a [https://youtu.be/lvHCtSsqOnM?t=35 distinct "hooooo-ey" call]. This is quite different from the dingo's "arrooo". Also, note the curled tail on the Basenji and its propensity for standing on its back feet, which inspired Eugene the Jeep's appearance and behavior. Segar would not have been thinking of a now-extinct ancestor species; it's only recent DNA evidence that links them to the dingo. My guess is that dog breeders had not settled on the name Basenji at the time of the strip, when the dogs were just being imported from Africa (they were introduced to the U.S. in the 1930s). --[[User:Iritscen|Iritscen]] ([[User talk:Iritscen|talk]]) 23:12, 7 June 2020 (CEST) | |||
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