I keep remembering a phrase and I'd like to know where it came from...it;s "Wrong Way, Cooligan"

Question

I'm not sure of the spelling and I don't know the context. I just want to name my cat Cooligan because she's always headed the wrong way....

thanks for any help you can give...

Answer 1

Actually it's Wrong Way Corrigan and the story goes like this:
On July 17 1938, Douglas Corrigan filed a flight plan for California and took off from a Brooklyn airfield in a tiny single-engine plane. 29 hours later he arrived in Ireland, claiming his compasses had failed. Although Corrigan never quite admitted it, his 'mistake' was surely a ruse to circumvent aviation authorities who had turned down his request to make a trans-Atlantic flight. Corrigan's stunt caught the public fancy and he was given a hero's welcome on his return to New York.

Answer 2

It's Corrigan. Corrigan was a flier in the 20's who took off in a plane from the east coast, supposedly to fly to California, but instead flew to England. The newspapers called him "Wrong Way Corrigan."

Answer 3

the name was corigan and the title from a football game where he scored a touchdown for the opposition with a long run. you'll find george bush later in his family tree

Answer 4

wrong way corrigan

got in plane and flew across atlantic instead of across the states
he said.

Answer 5

don't you mean 'wrong way Corrigan'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Corrigan