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Zippy's favorite foods are taco sauce and Ding Dongs. [11] He sometimes snacks on Polysorbate 80. Zippy's signature expression of surprise is "Yow!" Zippy's unpredictable behavior sometimes causes severe difficulty for others, but never for himself. (For example, drug dealers tried to use him as a drug mule, but lost their stash or were jailed.)
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
At first titled Yow [34] (which is Zippy's exclamation when he is surprised), the title was changed to Zippy for the final issue. [35] The first full-length Zippy collection, Zippy Stories, was published in 1981 by And/Or Press. The collection was brought back to print by Last Gasp in 1984, and had multiple printings (up through 1995). [36]
Mr. ZIP, informally Zippy, a cartoon character used by the U.S. Postal Service; Zippy (mascot), the name of the mascot for the University of Akron Zips; Zippy (Rainbow), a character in Rainbow, a British pre-school children's television series; Zippy the Pinhead, the main character in a comic strip of the same name
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club wrote: "No music mockumentary has really managed to reproduce This Is Spinal Tap's comic mojo, but Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping gets closer than most to that subgenre-defining comedy's mix of the dead-on and the over-the-top, even if it tends to go for quantity over quality." [31]
A Girl Named Zippy is a memoir by Haven Kimmel.This memoir describes the childhood of the author who grew up in the 1960s in the small town of Mooreland, Indiana.The title is taken from the author's nickname "Zippy" which her father gave her to describe her zipping around the house.
Snappy (previously known as Zippy) is a fast data compression and decompression library written in C++ by Google based on ideas from LZ77 and open-sourced in 2011. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression.