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{{quote|In after-years [Piglet] liked to think that he had been in Very Great Danger during the Terrible Flood, but the only danger he had really been in was the last half-hour of his imprisonment, when Owl, who had just flown up, sat on a branch of his tree to comfort him, and told him a very long story about an aunt who had once laid a seagull's egg by mistake, and the story went on and on, rather like this sentence, until Piglet who was listening out of his window without much hope, went to sleep quietly and naturally, slipping slowly out of the window towards the water until he was only hanging on by his toes, at which moment, luckily, a sudden loud squawk from Owl, which was really part of the story, being what his aunt said, woke the Piglet up and just gave him time to jerk himself back into safety and say, "How interesting, and did she?"
|''[[Winnie the Pooh]]''}}
A character known for droning on and on about topics of interest to no one but himself. As soon as he launches into one of his anecdotes, those present start rolling their eyes, going to sleep or having surreptitious conversations of their own. To qualify for this trope, it's not enough for a character simply to be verbose; it must be a source of annoyance and/or derision for the other characters.
Compare [[Blah Blah Blah]], [[Motor Mouth]], and [[Rambling Old Man Monologue]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* Cilan in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' qualifies. When he starts on one of his Pokémon connoisseur speeches, Iris usually gets annoyed and makes comments to the "there he goes again" effect.
** Jessie calls one of the judges in ''Pokémon Advanced'' a "windbag" when he starts making a long, boring speech.
* ''[[Hamtaro]]'': The "Elder Ham-Ham" has a bad case of this. He'll start talking to Hamtaro or Bijou about one of his days as a young Ham-Ham or tell an old story, and then halfway through, ''he'' will fall asleep.
== [[Film]]
* Col. Hathi in ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]''
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* The animated [[Rankin/Bass Productions]] special ''[[Twas the Night Before Christmas]]'' had the mayor who was like this. He'd get going on and on with big, long words, and the other characters would start yawning, rolling eyes, etc. Then he'd get tired of it himself and go "oh, heck" and do a TL,DR.
* Sethi's court announcer in ''[[The Ten Commandments]]''. This is exactly what everyone kept calling him..."the old windbag".
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|Owl]] in ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]''
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* ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', a parody of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. At one point Goddam (Gollum) starts to do this for no apparent reason.
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Spam gagged, and his arm went limp. "Die," he suggested.
Frito took a large loaf of raisin bread and crammed it into Goddam's mouth. }}
* In the real ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Lord of the Rings]]'', Bilbo has become this to most of his friends and neighbours.
* Purdy in the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series. When he starts to tell a story, characters often find excuses to leave. Some of them fall asleep in the middle of his stories. Once, he actually did realize that the other cat fell asleep, and when they woke up, he informed them that they missed a lot of the story and so he'd better just start over at the beginning.
== [[Live
* ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' TOS episode "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby". Frisby loves to tell [[Tall Tale|tall tales]] about his past, much to the disgust of the regulars in his store.
* Sheldon from ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.
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== [[Music]] ==
* The titular character from the song "Old Blevins" by [[The Austin Lounge Lizards]]. Blevins has some deep wisdom he wishes to share:
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* Polonius in ''[[Hamlet]]''
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== [[Video Games]] ==
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