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"I was on the toilet when Rooty got out so I had to quickly get my thigh pads on," he said.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2022

He has spoken to Root and Ballance about playing Test cricket - "Rooty says it's a lot more intense" - but is yet to sit down with Cook or national team coach Peter Moores.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2014

“Using only a large-ish glass of water, he once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants,” Rooty wrote on behalf of one LinkedIn user.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2014

Wilson also worked for UPA on their Mister Magoo series and the acclaimed animated shorts Rooty Toot Toot and The Tell-Tale Heart, and UPA's freer, more contemporary, style informed much of Wilson's later work.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2013

Rooty Tooty's brigade then was resting—if in the circumstances you can call it resting.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir