Major Bloodnok title character points out an Ogre constellation known as 'Bloodnok The Flatulent'. Il Capitano Major Bloodnok Major Denis Bloodnok is a fictional character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy "The Goon Show". He was voiced by Peter Sellers. Bloodnok's army career was notable for cowardice and monetary irregularities. He was discharged after being found dressed as a woman, although he claims it was carnival night. He was repeatedly implied to be a womaniser. A prime example of this is in "Drums Along the Mersey" where he is thrown out of a boat for being caught with the captain's wife. Another
Major Bloodnok "56th Heavy Underwater Artillery" (the real 56th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery was Milligan's regiment during WW2). "The Affair of the Lone Banana" sees Bloodnok as "Major Bloodnok, late of Zsa Zsa Gabor's Third Regular Husbands". In "The Mummified Priest", when Seagoon explains that he has come to Egypt to look for the tomb of a priest belonging to the third or fourth dynasties, Bloodnok replies, "Fourth Dynasties? My old regiment!" He has also claimed to have been in the "3rd Heavy Nudists" ("Oh, what a cap badge they had!"). It is possible that he was at one time a member