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Submitted by stevenl on Sun, 05/21/2006 - 6:15pm.

Waaaa! Waaaaaaaaaa!: News item, babies are now branded with their Social Security numbers at birth. (One Way Flight to Anywhere But Here (1977))

Waaaaaaaaaa!: See Waaaa! Waaaaaaaaaa!

Whack!: A mysterious hand reaches for the cartoonist's nose, but the cartoonist whacks it away saying, "No! Not yet!" (How Two Ex-Presidents Went Up My Nose (1994))

Whak! Whak!: See Whoosh! Crreak! Zing! Whak! Whak!

Whakka Whakka Whakka Whakka Whakka Whakka: The sound made by a cat shredding and unrolling several feet of toilet paper. (Natural Functions (1986))

Wham!:
(1) "Back in the forward time, folks grew taller by one foot with each year of life. When the very old 'passed on,' they crashed to the ground like falling timber." (Cartoon Loonacy 1 (1984))
(2) Prince Morty storms into the Queen's room, opening the door with such force it WHAMs against the wall. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 3 (1984))
See also: Toss! Wham! Splat! R-r-rip!

Wham Bam!: The rabble pound on the doors of the King's castle. (Tragedy of Morty, prince of Denmarke 4 (1984))

Wham Bam Bam!: In a world filled with mostly children, inmates in a prison pound the cafeteria tables demanding "Can-dy! Can-dy! CAN-DY! CAN-DY!" (Dogtown Zoo (1982))

Wham Wham Wham: Angry Sasquatches attempting to batter down the door of a cabin filled with prospectors, Mt. St. Helens, 1924. (Sasquatch Comix 3 (1983))

Whamp!: See Gnaw! Ga-Naw! Ga-Na! Whamp!

Whang!: See Zip! Boing Oing-Oing! Whang! Ang!

Whang! Whang! Whang!: The sound of a Morty Dog using a shovel on the heads of 60 ft. tall men who are trapped in a deep ditch in order to render them unconscious. (Cartoon Loonacy 1 (1984))

Whap!:
(1) Argak Click, who thinks he is a dinosaur, pounds the pulpit as he addresses a convention of Republicans. (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982))
(2) After hearing the line, "I behold the wretch-- this miserable monster I have created" for the fourth time, a Morty Dog slugs the circus clown who is uttering it. (Cranium Frenzy 5 (1985))
(3) A Morty Dog is slapped out of chair by a lout, "Git outta my chair, ya lazy mutt!" (Dog of Dawn, Dog of Dusk (1985))
(4) A young man in a hurry to get drunk whaps the bar with his fist, "Well where the Hell is the bartender?" (One Way Flight to Anywhere But Here (1977))
(5) A mysterious hand reaches for the cartoonist's nose, but the cartoonist whaps it away saying, "Not yet!" (How Two Ex-Presidents Went Up My Nose (1994))
(6) Ofeelya tells her father, Phelonius, that Prince Hamlet is in love with her.
Ofeelya: I did repel his letters, and denied his access to me.
Phelonius: That hath made him mad!!
And thinking he has finally discovered the source of Prince Morty's erratic behavior, Phelonius WHAPs his right fist into the palm of his left hand in a gesture of victorious discovery. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 2 (1984))
(7) Prince Morty loudly closes his volume of Juvenal's writings as a sign of irritation when interrupted by Phelonius. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 2 (1984))
See also: Blam! Blam! Whap!
See also: Bonk!! Oofers! Whap!
See also: Zip! Whap! Pop! Poosh!

Whap! Smash!: In a demonstration that housecats always go for the most valuable item when destroying home decorative objects, a cat WHAPs and SMASHes a Ming Dynasty vase and seems quite pleased about it. (Natural Functions (1986))

Whap Whap Whap Whap: See Flop! Thud! Thunk! Crack! Arrr! Garrr! Yarr! Arrrr! Yarrrg! Skreee Arrrr! Grrr! Yaarrr! Pfffftt! Slam! Whap Whap Whap Whap

Wheeerrrrwheeerr: A siren goes off in a small Grays Harbor County town, alerting the citizens that a car with out-of-state plates has driven into town. (East County Comix (ca. 1988))

Wheeze!: See Ack! Ack! Ack! Wheeze! Click!

Whirggg!: See Zow! Zip! Whirggg! Whirgggg!

Whirgggg!: See Zow! Zip! Whirggg! Whirgggg!

Whirl!: See Swoop! Zip! Whirl! Zow! Jab! Zorp!

Whirr Click Whirr Click Whirr Click:
(1) A Morty Dog dials on a rotary telephone. (Comix Wave 15 (1983))
(2) Arnie Wormwood, P.I., calls his answering service from a rotary phone in a phone booth, and asks, "Hey Baby, what's the scoop?" (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982))

Whirrr!: See Wraaaang! Whirrr!

Whirrrr: See Scribble! Scribble! Whirrrr Click Click

Who-o-o-ooosh!: See Gnaw Ga-Naw Ga-Naw Arrr Grrr Rrrrip! Who-o-o-ooosh!

Whomp!: Bob Richartolovskii smacks his cranium into the torso of a Morty Dog tied to a stake in a barbaric dog butting contest. (Dog of Dawn, Dog of Dusk (1985))

Whoompf!:
See Zip! Whoompf!
See Zow! Whump! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Zip! Bonk! Zow! Bonk! Whoompf! Bonk!

Whooosh!: See Whoosh! Zip! Whooosh! Zip! Whooosh! Pssssshh

Whoosh!:
(1) The universe gets sucked into a white hole. (Big Picture Picture Book (1983))
(2) In a graduate librarianship program, a professor "a rather insidious misanthrope who liked books more than people, saw his class as a garden. It was his job to weed it out. That's right! He was quite good at it. Employing the Socratic method, meaningless busy work, and 19th century teaching methods he bombarded the class with a steady gust of hot wind. And one by one the students were blown away. Only the bibliogeeks in the front row survived ... (Whoosh!) ... with the exception of Morty the Human.
Teacher: Care to sit up closer, with the rest of the class, Mr. Morty?
Morty the Human: Drop dead, peckerhead! Your breath stinks!
(Gosky Comics (1986))
(3) Crazy Ray and Timmy the Panda escape from Mr. Lundi's dream and enter reality. (One Way Flight to Anywhere But Here (1977))
(4) The frigid winter wind blows into a strange tavern as a young man comes through the door. (One Way Flight to Anywhere But Here (1977))
See also: Pop Whoosh! Swoosh! Foosh! Sssssssss Fooossssssshhh
See also: Zang! Whoosh! Zow!
See also: Zip! Puncture! Zip! Whoosh! Zow!
See also: Zip! Whoosh!

Whoosh! Crash!: A fishbowl is thrown to the ground by a man in suspenders. (Almost Complete Collected Morty Comix (1984))

Whoosh! Crash! Zow! Bonk! Bonk! Smash! Zip! Zow! Zip! Skrash! Rrrrr-rrrr-sput-rrrr-sput Blink! Ka-rash!: A Z-33 missile loaded into a Morty Dog's station wagon takes off, making Morty and the car into an out of control rocket. It goes over a gathering of nunmuggers (Whoosh!), through a chess game between two fish-people (Crash!) upsets Mrs. O'Grady's plastic flamingoes (Zow! Bonk! Bonk!), enters the ground level doors of a skyscraper (Smash!) and flies up the stairs (Zip! Zow! Zip!), then through the roof (Skrash!). Finally, in mid-air, the weapon runs out of fuel (Rrrrr-rrrr-sput-rrrr-sput Blink!), sending Morty and the car crashing to ground (Ka-rash!). (Cranium Frenzy 1 (1981))

Whoosh! Crreak! Zing! Whak! Whak!: Morty the Human prepares for the hurricane-like gust of hot wind that will emanate from his teacher in his graduate program in librarianship. He nails his hands to his desk. The wind comes (Whoosh!) and the hands remain nailed, but the board holding them down comes loose (Crreak!) sending Morty flying with his hands nailed to a loose board (Zing!). He comes to rest after hitting a door in a crucifix posture, with his hands nailed to the wall above his head. (Gosky Comics (1986))

Whoosh! Zip! Whooosh! Zip! Whooosh! Pssssshh: The sound of the Earth careening through space, as the air is suddenly released from within, not unlike a child's balloon flying wildly around the room. (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982))

Whumf: A man with a toilet plunger stuck on the top of his head dives into a field of snow (Whumf), and lands sticking straight upside-down while balancing perfectly in the plunger stick. Eventually he becomes a human Popsicle. (Cranium Frenzy 1 (1981))

Whump!:
(1) An alien spacecraft makes landfall in 1692 Massachusetts. (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982))
(2) A rodent-like creature falls out of a box of books a college student is carrying as he runs to return them before they are overdue. The creature lands with a WHUMP! after spinning four complete times. (Library Comix (1987))
(3) A headless body opens a refrigerator and out pops a Morty Dog. As the headless body flees in fright, Morty jumps on it (WHUMP!) in order to get answers. (Natural Functions (1986))
(4) A spy-fly drops a Morty Dog (WHUMP!) into a diminuendo dimension. (Pacemaker Defect (1982))
(5) A man who looks like comix artist Bruce Chrislip (I'm not saying he is Bruce, just that he looks like him) is driving through Boise, Idaho. Meanwhile, a large plastic promotional cartoon head bound for a comic book convention falls out of a cargo plane and lands on Bruce, er, I mean the driver (WHUMP!) The head looked like Richie Rich (I'm not saying it was Richie Rich, just that it looked like him). At first, Bruce, er, I mean the driver was confused, but after enjoying being the center of attention as a famous character, his ego swelled and his head grew so big it became permanently affixed to the plastic shell. So Bruce, er, I mean the driver spent the rest of his life looking like this cartoon character who looked like Richie Rich. (State of Beings 13 (1992))
See also: Kick! Whump!
See also: Push! Whump!
See also: Zerk! Whump!
See also: Zip Whump!
See also: Zow! Whump! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Zip! Bonk! Zow! Bonk! Whoompf! Bonk!
See also: Zow! Zip Toss! Bungala Bungala Bungala Zoom Boing Zoop Zip Whump!

Whump! Tap! Tap! Smack!: The Big G, mad as Hell, lands on Earth (WHUMP!) to rub out the very last Morty Dog. No sooner does he land than he feels a TAP! TAP! on his shoulder. The Big G turns and is SMACKed on his nose with a big wet kiss from the last of the Morty Dogs. (Rise and Fall of Morty the Dog (1987))

 

Wink!:
(1) The shrunken head of Lord Oliver Crumwell is now happily residing in the sewers of New York City with the alligators. Alligator: "I'd rather be living in shit than being made into shoes!" Crumwell: "Yew said it! And we ain't movin' for nobuddy!!!" Wink! (Cranium Frenzy 1 (1981))
(2) Percy: Darn it! It just burns me up!
Ad Man: What's wrong, Mr. Percy Bugbee of Topeka, Kansas?
Percy: It's this dad-blasted stigmata! Blood on the collar! Blood on the sleeves! It'll never wash out!
Ad Man: "Ha Ha!" Stop worrying, you silly-billy. New "Logiclean" will clean out up even the most fundamentalcase nuts such as yourself. It has special "crucifiction" cleansor!
[The next morning]
Percy: Wow! One could never tell those stains were there! I can now look for work and get a real job!
Ad Man: (Wink!)
(Ham 2 (ca1987))

Wink. Tap! Tap! Wink: A Morty Dog and a cartoon guy playfully hit each other on the chins while winking. Morty: "Take that ya big galoot! You're cruisin' for a bruisin'!" Cartoon guy: "Puttin' up with your shenanigans is a full time job, squirt!" (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982))

Wink! Wink!: Chuck and Elma wink at the readers as they prepare to reveal a new way to tour the world without paying an arm and a leg. (Limbolympia (1983))

Wink Wink Tap! Tap! Wink Wink: Prince Morty and Horatio playfully hit each on the chin. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 3 (1984))

Wop!: The cartoonist hits (Wop!) a mysterious hand as it reaches for his nose and orders, "Not yet!" (How Two Ex-Presidents Went Up My Nose! (1994))

Wowm!: A Winnebago with Utah plates and six million decals driving past a hitchhiking Morty Dog. (Morty Prima Facie! (1986))

Wraaaang! Whirrr!: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Wraaaang!) is contrasted with the Elma Weed-Eater Impolite Behavior (Whirrrr!) (Larry of McCleary and Other Characters (1989))

Wrap!: See Screech! Snap! Tangle! Wrap! Tie! Zip! Grab!

Wroom!: A big car with Texas plates driving past a hitchhiking Morty Dog. (Morty Prima Facie! (1986))

Wrrrr! Grind! Wrrrr! Wrrrrrr Wrrrrr Wrrrr Wrrrr Grind! Scrape! Wrrrrr: The Ax Grinder, who has an ax-head in place of his left hand, grinds away in order to sharpen his blade so he can destroy a Morty Dog. But he becomes so wrapped up in grinding, that he grinds himself into dust, prompting a Morty Dog ghost to quote Dickens, "Oh, but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone." (Slam Bang 3 (1986))

Wrrrrr: See Wrrrr! Grind! Wrrrr! Wrrrrrr Wrrrrr Wrrrr Wrrrr Grind! Scrape! Wrrrrr

Wrrrrrr: See Wrrrr! Grind! Wrrrr! Wrrrrrr Wrrrrr Wrrrr Wrrrr Grind! Scrape! Wrrrrr

Wump!: A sack of dead fish lands on Arnie Wormwood's head. (Cranium Frenzy 10 (2003))

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