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Well done, Jackie! Does tsuwm work for your library's Just Ask line, then?
Here's the place you end up:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Studio/8255/filmog/film3.html
Mind you, all it says is exactly the same as Jackie's second sentence.
Could this be one of those cases where the word doesn't relate exclusively to one situation?
e.g:
Somebody who speaks Swahili sees a big gorilla coming out of the bushes and screams "Mogambo!!!" - everybody who understands Swahili runs away.
A bit further into the jungle, the group sights the grisly remains of a cannibal banquet. "Mogambo!!!" says one Swahili speaker to another, and they make themselves scarce. The sole remaining white man assumes that a big gorilla was responsible for the bloody mess around, and decides he'd better shoot the mogambo when he next gets the chance. And anyway, there's that little space on his mantelpiece, and normal ashtrays are so boring...
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