Talk:Gonk

message: I always had it in my mind that gonks (Gonks?) were conical and involved a cardboard centre, wool and stick on eyes.  A little like those circles of cardboard you'd wind wool round for ages before tying the centre off and cutting the outside of the circle, thus leaving a big fluffy ball, all ready for sticking eyes on.  Not that I'm a gonk expert.  Christ I wish I was though.
Skalham. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.106.197.39 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 29 November 2006
:I don't think the pictures are of gonks. I remember gonks as being a ball of wiry/fluffy hair with eyes and feet and nothing else.( I think skalham is describing a version, and it sounds more like a gonk than the pictures)  The article is correct in distinguishing beteen a troll and a gonk. Trolls are altogether different.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.2.134.14 (talk • contribs) 19:43, 6 February 2007
:I wrote the original gonk article, which has been expanded by others, and my description of gonks as round shapes with no discernable arms or legs, but only having flaps of cloth is stil accurate, I believe.  The pictures aren't really gonks because they have limbs. TBY.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.166.30.50 (talk • contribs) 11:32, 16 May 2007
::Hey, here's a novel idea--instead of including images of objects that aren't gonks, captioning them saying that they are gonks, then including a disclaimer in the text that says they really aren't gonks, why not just remove the inmages? Calgary 20:07, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What is a gonk?

message: It still doesn't explain why an article which was about 10 times the length of this one, written by several people over a couple of years was trimmed to the one-liner we have now.  Look at the earlier versions, why the massive trim, what was the rationale?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.1.226.116 (talk) 15:05, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it because it was a rambling, unreferenced mess of original research; Wikipedia has standards and this stuff didn't match up to them. If you like the old version you can permalink it because it won't change unless the page gets deleted, or better still, save it to your hard drive. Cheers, Baffle gab1978 (talk) 05:19, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Why the massive cut?

message: I'm not sure if this has the relevance to be mentioned in this article, but "The Gonk" is also the name of the distinctive end credit music used in Dawn of the Dead (1978).  It has also been used in Shaun of the Dead.  Should this be mentioned, at least?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.190.231 (talk) 17:36, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Also used as the end credits in Robot Chicken, if I'm not mistaken.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.190.231 (talk) 17:38, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song Name 

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thread_title: File:Agonks1.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: I've added a tone tag to this article. A quick review of its edit history and talk page suggests a long and troubled history with many cleanup attempts aborted halfway through and many mass deletions without replacement. Indeed, the former first sentence of the article (which I've removed) was a non sequitur connected to a version mostly deleted about 20 months prior to this writing. On top of everything else, many images in the article taken after the 1923 public domain cutoff appear with no fair use rationale. If anyone wants to spend time on this, it'd be greatly appreciated. 2601:643:8102:18C0:B19B:370F:C69:DA55 (talk) 00:54, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone issues 

message: FWIW: Around 1966, when I was 14, and living in a suburb of Sydney, which is a city in Australia, my girlfriend made me a gonk. Most teenaged girls made gonks that year; it was a fad. A gonk was a Humpty Dumpty figure with a body about the size of a slice of bread. It had short arms, but very long skinny legs. It was designed to sit on a bookshelf or mantelpiece and dangle its long legs over. I no longer have the gonk. Or the girl. I never heard of the commercially produced toy until I read this article. --2001:44B8:3102:BB00:B162:91A8:319D:CC2B (talk) 21:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hand-made Toy 

message: I'm putting this here like a draft.  I'm looking through 1970s trove for citations.
* A gonk was a prize in the Bourke District Hospital Auxiliary Street Stall 
* In the novelties section The Fords Bridge Horse Sports day, Mrs L Green won the gonk competition (presumably for making one)
* This 1965 ad features a drawing of a spherical gonk as a soft toy making kit 
Newystats (talk) 22:51, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  1970s Australian cylindrical gonks