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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: meg_evonne on October 02, 2009, 01:49:18 AM

Title: help me out? short story, maybe Bradbury that had Zugs and Ziggerty?
Post by: meg_evonne on October 02, 2009, 01:49:18 AM

I read a sci fi short story that had a zug and I think a ziggerty?  Anyone remember that?  I've a friend who is using ziggerty in her writing and it kind a grinds against something inside me---like it's stepping on the toes of a sci fi classic.  For the life of me I can't remember the name of the story! Anyone remember it?  Should I even mention it, if that is the case? 

It just seems to me that there are sci fi things you don't step on when it's a classic.  It's really bugging me...  Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: help me out? short story, maybe Bradbury that had Zugs and Ziggerty?
Post by: Darwinist on October 02, 2009, 04:54:59 AM

wtf is a ziggerty... or a zug.... or a Bradbury. Mmmm easter eggs. sorry, Cadbury... mmmm chocolate bunnies.

wait, what were we talking about?

Title: Re: help me out? short story, maybe Bradbury that had Zugs and Ziggerty?
Post by: Blaze on October 02, 2009, 08:47:55 AM

Zug-zug was a euphemism in Ringo Starr's classc movie "Caveman."  Other than that I got nothin'

Title: Re: help me out? short story, maybe Bradbury that had Zugs and Ziggerty?
Post by: LizW65 on October 05, 2009, 12:59:04 PM

I Googled both words and it turns out Zug is a place in Switzerland.  Ziggerty is all over the board, so to speak; it's everything from a cookie (Hot Ziggerty Bars) to, apparently, a rock climb in Britain, but I can't figure out what it means, if anything.  Sounds like it might be a nonsense word along the lines of Hot Diggety!  Bradbury didn't come up in connection with either term.