Talk:Tanglefoot

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Tanglefoot is a well known British beer available in Europe and the USA. It would be the priority search for people entering the word Tanglefoot. None of the other entries for Tanglefoot had any articles attached to them. But I have taken the main Tangefoot terms and linked them with the nearest available article.

• Tanglefoot bags
• Tanglefoot whiskey
• Tanglefoot Rats
• Get into the tanglefoot

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Tanglefoot is an American slang term for illegal liquor, typically whiskey, which has fallen out of general use since Prohibition ended in 1933. It is still occasionally used in the Appalachian Region, but the word "moonshine" has replaced it in general use.

The phrase "get into the tanglefoot" referred to going on a drinking binge. Ralph Moody used this phrase repeatedly in his autobiographical book "The Dry Divide," set along the Kansas-Nebraska border in 1919.

Tanglefoot was the name of a racehorse character in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse comic strip in the 1930's. The genesis for this character, Thunderbolt, got drunk just before a big race.

Tanglefoot now serves as a brand name for an English ale and a form of spread-on flypaper, as well as the stage name for bands both in the US and Canada.

Tanglefoot also has shown up in the popular online video games such as Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call two. Tanglefoot Rats of various names can be seen around various parts of either game's virtual world.

Tanglefoot bags were used in Dungeons and Dragons. They were a substance that caused others to get stuck or at least move slowly.

Tanglefoot is a five-man (four guys and a girl) band from Ontario, Canada."

SilkTork 13:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Disambiguation page?

I've been thinking about this page for awhile, and do folks think this would be better left as a disambiguation page? The current topic here (which isn't much) is for a brand name of an insect adhesive trap. If the actual brand is noteworthy, that can be mentioned over at Insect trap, but I would think at least clearing this page and just having a link to the insect trap page is all that's really needed for the current content. What do folks think? Just from what I've seen so far, potentially things for the list are:

1. As an insect trap
2. Military fortification
3. Potentially others listed in the above talk section.

In most cases though, I don't see the articles actually mention the term Tanglefoot, so there might be some pruning to do or find sources that state the term's use. Either way, do people think we should do away with the article format and just start with a disambiguation for now and see where it goes? Kingofaces43 (talk) 19:18, 26 January 2015 (UTC)