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* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Cell]]'' involves a Hate Plague "Pulse" afflicting people using their cell phones, sending them into berserk rages while gibbering Angrish.
** [[The Dark Tower]] series gives us, {{spoiler|The deranged shrieking of the Crimson King}}.
* [[Belisarius Series|Belisarius]] is reduced to this in ''Destiny's Shield'', when Antonina refuses to take along guards on her trip to Egypt.
* In ''[[Malevil]]'', Momo is reduced to this when their wheat harvest comes under attack. What's significant is that Momo is [[Man Child|barely]] [[Speech Impediment|capable]] of speech in the first place.
* In ''[[The Eye of Argon]]'', the evil prince Agaphim is reduced to speaking "muffled sibilant gibberish" when Grignr insults him. The "faintly perceptible ceremonial jibberish" (sic) spoken by a cultist earlier in the story may also count.
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* [[Calvin and Hobbes]]'s dad, after dropping a heavy Christmas present on his foot: "Slippin' rippin' dang fang rotten zarg barg-a-ding-dong!"
* One fellow in ''[[Bloom County]]'' brought in his letter to the editor on some topic or other, and gave an Angrish explanation of what it said, with frequent moments when he was so outraged he could only exclaim, "Ooooh!" According to Milo, the letter itself was exactly as incoherent.
{{quote|'''Fellow''': Anyway, it's all there in my letter.
'''Milo''': Verbatim.}}
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'''Joe:''' You little -- you little ''Bertie!!!'' }}
* The [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAngryGrandpaShow Angry Grandpa Show], all the time.
* [[Harlan Ellison]], in an essay describing how [[Executive Meddling|television production thoroughly screwed up]] the [[Generation Ship]] idea he'd offered them -- the resulting disaster was titled ''[[The Starlost]]'' -- uses the marvelous phrase, "'Aaaaarrrgh,' I aaaaarrrghed."
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