gos·sa·mer (ɡäsəmər), noun
-a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs spun by small spiders, which is seen especially in autumn.
-used to refer to something very light, thin, and insubstantial or delicate.
From Wikipedia:
Gossamer is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The character is a hairy, red monster. His rectangular body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. The monster’s main trait, however, is bright uncombed orange hair.
The Gossamer Condor was the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight; as such, it won the Kremer prize in 1977. It was created by Paul MacCready and Peter Lissaman of AeroVironment, Inc.
The Gossamer Project is a group of specialty archives that, combined, contain the vast majority of X-Files fan fiction on the Internet. In the mid to late 1990s, the Gossamer Archives/Project was one of the “big three” single media fandom-focused archives on the Internet, and remained the largest single fandom fan fiction archive[citation needed] until the emergence of various Harry Potter archives in the early 2000s.
(Photo taken 4/27/2015.)
Why did I not know that was the name of the Looney Tunes character? 🙂
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Because you don’t watch cartoons? 🙂
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Lol
I do watch cartoons. I just don’t remember that creature ever having a name
He was just the big red monster that showed up an caused havoc from time to time 🙂
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