The basic concept of a disgruntled gangster getting even with the yeggs who screwed him goes back at least as far as Hollywood's 1930s Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. Robinson pictures.
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The Adrian Yeggs were a Southern Michigan League baseball team based in Adrian, Michigan, United States that played from 1909 to 1914 as a whole and 1909 to 1911 under the Yeggs nickname. According to the book Baseball Team Names, 1869-2012, they were named after safe-cracker James Yeggs, one of the most well-known inmates at a prison located in Adrian. Carl Vandagrift, Frank Gilhooley and Elmer Smith played for them.BR Minors In 1912, they were renamed to the Adrian Lions Major League Baseball players that played for them include Emil Huhn, Cowboy Jones, Elmer Smith and Bun Troy.
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He states, "You never know what you'll do, until you've got a gun pointed at your head" (which was almost the same line Daffy used in Golden Yeggs).
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The first appearance of a Willoughby character was a cannery security guard in Salmon Yeggs (1958). Although small bald men have also been seen in The Clip Joint, Billion Dollar Boner and Hunger Strife, they were not "true" Willoughbies.
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Some Oulipian constraints: ; S+7, sometimes called N+7 : Replace every noun in a text with the seventh noun after it in a dictionary. For example, "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago..." becomes "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago...".
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The same play-on-words was used in the title of the 1947 Bugs Bunny cartoon, Easter Yeggs. This cartoon also appeared in the magazine Time Inc. (owned by Time Warner), which would later spun off on June 6, 2014.
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His warm and tightly-cropped urban scenes were also featured early in his career in the Bugs Bunny film Baseball Bugs (1946), and in the crime syndicate-themed Daffy Duck film Golden Yeggs (1950). Julian also worked extensively as a WPA mural artist.
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Easter Yeggs is a 1947 Looney Tunes theatrical animated short. The cartoon was released on June 28, 1947, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. The title is a play on "Easter eggs" and on "yegg", a slang term for a burglar or safecracker.
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Golden Yeggs is a 1950 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng. The cartoon was released on August 5, 1950, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. A forerunner of the Rocky and Mugsy characters appear, with Rocky already in his present-day form.
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The Op finds a "wandering daughter" who liked rough "yeggs" and ended up dead. # "The Farewell Murder" (Black Mask, February 1930) (CO) (CS). The Op struggles to prove a vendetta-bent sadist wasn't nine hours away at the time of a grisly killing. # "Death and Company" (Black Mask, November 1930) (RO).
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The Op finds a "wandering daughter" who liked rough "yeggs" and ended up dead. # "The Farewell Murder" (Black Mask, February 1930) (CO) (CS). The Op struggles to prove a vendetta-bent sadist wasn't nine hours away at the time of a grisly killing. # "Death and Company" (Black Mask, November 1930) (RO).
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