Going off at a tangent to the extent of altering of a final consonant; but seeing the word “floop”, immediately made me think of this guy – who gave me as a kid, much pleasure and amusement.
The cartoon-strip featuring Flook appeared for decades in the Daily Mail: a newspaper which has a bad name as a present-day British equivalent of Nazi Germany’s Der Stürmer. I am certainly no fan of the Mail; but even nowadays, it sometimes briefly forgets the right-wing hate-and-spite and prints something positive and worthwhile; and it tended in times past, to be somewhat less nasty and more “inclusive”, than it predominantly shows itself to be at the present time.