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Klutz
Klutz may refer to: * Klutz Press, a publishing company *Klütz Klütz () is a town in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated near the Baltic Sea coast, 22 km northwest of Wismar, and 33 km northeast of Lübeck. It is famous for the manor house B ... (or ''"Kluetz"'') is a surname and a town in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany * Captain Klutz, comic strip superhero parody of ''Mad Magazine'' See also * Kluttz, a surname {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Klutz
Captain Klutz is a comic strip character created in 1967 by Don Martin. He is a parody of superhero characters. The character originally saw print in a series of original paperback books done for the '' Mad'' magazine paperback line, not the magazine itself. Backstory The protagonist, Ringo Fonebone, is a hopelessly inept man utterly absorbed in reading comic books to the point that he was kicked out of his parents' house, a vocational school he tried to attend and a flophouse (the last expulsion left him in nothing but a set of red long johns and dotted boxer shorts). Attempting to commit suicide by hanging himself, the towel he used as a rope broke, inadvertently acquiring a mask (originally a woman's hat being thrown out by her irate husband), and finally crash-landed in the middle of a robbery, in long-johns, his "mask" and towel "cape", distracting the robber long enough for the police to capture him. The robber's angry exclamation, "Why, you klutz!," was taken by the daz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klutz Press
Klutz is a publishing company founded in Palo Alto, California in 1977 (47-48 years ago). It was acquired by Canada-based Nelvana in April 2000, and became a subsidiary of Scholastic Inc. in 2002. The first Klutz book was a how-to guide titled ''Juggling for the Complete Klutz'', which came provided with juggling beanbags attached in a mesh bag. The book was written by three classmates who graduated from Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...: Darrell Lorentzen, John Cassidy, and B.C. Rimbeaux. Since then, the company has continued to specialize in activity-driven books sold along with other items needed for the activity. Not all the books are about developing a skill; there has also been a geography book containing, among other physical attachment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klütz
Klütz () is a town in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated near the Baltic Sea coast, 22 km northwest of Wismar, and 33 km northeast of Lübeck. It is famous for the manor house Bothmer Castle, located just outside the village. In the centre of the village lies the medieval Brick Gothic village church, dedicated to Our Lady. There is also a centre of literature named after writer Uwe Johnson in the town. It is close to the cities of Lübeck, Wismar and Schwerin and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region The Hamburg Metropolitan Region () is a metropolitan region centred around the city of Hamburg in northern Germany, consisting of eight districts () in the federal state of Lower Saxony, six districts () in the state of Schleswig-Holstein and two .... Notable residents * Fedor Kelling (1820-1909), New Zealand politician * Carl Friederich Christian Kelling (1818-1898), New Zealand politician References E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |