The
cartoonist David Low first drew
Colonel Blimp for
Lord Beaverbrook's
London Evening Standard in the 1930s: pompous, irascible, jingoistic and
stereotypically English. "Gad, Sir", Blimp would proclaim, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane weapon to emphasise his
passion and complacency on some issue of current affairs.
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