Why so anti?

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JonathanD

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Must admit though my innocent mind back then wouldn't have seen the double meaning references much like Captain Pugwash with Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin boy went woosh over my head while my Dad cracked up hearing it.

You do realise that the reason we never got those names as kids was because they were never really in the show. It is an urban myth started by a newspaper in the 90's that has taken on it's own truth. The real names used in the show are here...

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

Libel case regarding double entendres
There is a persistent urban legend, repeated by the now-defunct UK newspaper the Sunday Correspondent, which ascribes sexually suggestive names – such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger the Cabin Boy (meaning to have sex with) – to Captain Pugwash's characters, and indicating that the captain's name was a slang Australian term for oral sex. John Ryan successfully sued both the Sunday Correspondent and The Guardian newspapers in 1991 for printing this legend as fact.
 

John Fenna

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H.R Puff 'n' Stuff wasn't shown in the UK? Well, I remember seeing it as a kid in the late 60's early 70's with Jack Wilde and can still wail out the signature tune. Must admit though my innocent mind back then wouldn't have seen the double meaning references much like Captain Pugwash with Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin boy went woosh over my head while my Dad cracked up hearing it. Bit like watching a PIXAR animation film nowadays they're loaded with humour that works on two levels.

Flashing blade. Hmmm the title rings a bell and that opening song does bring back a vague memory. Going to have to listen to it again when I have more time.

Anyone remember Robinson Crusoe? That foreign langauge one. Not sure what it was, Spanish I think. I liked that series.

Marine Boy was a fav cartoon of mine as a kid, with his Oxygum. The amounts of chewing gums I ate pretending those were the same as he took... didn't work on bath night though, still got water up my nose. Marine boy was very much like Manga cartoons are today, without the schoolgirls and tentacled monster though.

I was having an email exchange with my best mate bakc in the Uk last year about nostalgic TV shows I mentioned Sky to him and he was blank about that series. Anyone else remember it? Featured some blonde boy with dark blue eyes without whites in them. Spooky show as I recall, Tomorrow People were a lot easier to understand. Man, the times I wished I could Jaunt to school!

Gotta dash, we're out for a pizza tonight!

RC? bad soundtrack that went Da da da da dah-de de de de de de-dah?
It on youtube!
One of the things that started me on Survival and bushcraft!
I remember Pufnstuff as well ... and I am sure the writers were erm Puffnstuff!
Flashing blade had no obvious plot but Belle and Sabastian did - and a cracking dog in it!
Anyone remember The Hotspur comic? Playhour comic?...Look and Learn? And the mighty EAGLE!?
 

Toddy

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I used to nick my brother's comics. Well they were an awful lot more interesting than the Judy and the Bunty :rolleyes:
Hostpur, the Victor, Commando magazines..........brilliant :D

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M
 

Ray Britton

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its odd your dad found those names funny on Captain Pugwash........As they were never on there in the first place. It's simply something invented after the programme went out, as an urban myth.

There was a Master Mate, and the cabin boy was Tom, so maybe time has played tricks here too. Oddly, there was a character called Willy, but no one bothers about that lol

I still think 'H.R Pufnstuf' was only shown as a series (17 episodes) In the U.S., and that the film 'pufnstuf (same cast, same music and still Jack Wilde) was shown in the UK (repeatedly year after year).

As we have had Robinson Crusoe mentioned, it will surely only be a matter of time before 'White Horses is mentioned (another summer holiday annual repeat). A silly bit of White Horse trivia is that the theme tune was sung (for the UK) by the famous sixties singer Jackie Lee, who also sang the tune for the original 'Rupert Bear' programmes.

Biker, when you are back from having pizza (hope it was nice too), can you give any more details on 'sky', as to any plot, or year on TV, as I am intrigued on that one :)

Johnathan D: Sorry for not crediting you with the captain Pugwash stuff too. I have not looked at your link, but just had to mention the fact that 'willy' (an in theory obvious target) is long forgotten. Something that didn't get past me as a child though, was the fact that Mr Ben was a continual shop lifter, and I always thought it was wrong that he stole an item from the costume shop every time he went there.
 
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Biker

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Ahh didn't know Pugwash was one of those urban legends. Thanks for the clarification JonD and Ray. As for my Dad laughing at the programme, you're right, maybe the memory has been tainted with time, or he thought the animations were bloody awful and was laughing at that. Yup pizza was deelish but soon gone. Little factoid for you the French leave the stones in the black olives. Chewer beware! :yikes:

Sky. Hmmm the memory fades, the vision dims... however a quick search via Goggle images turned up THIS Hope it helps. looks like it's out on DVD too. Wonder if I watched it nowadays I'd understand it. Good point about Mr Ben being a habitual shoplifter.

John. Yup, Robinson Crusoe probably planted the seed and got me interested in basic survival and bushcraft as well. Ever read the book by Daniel DeFoe? Classical stuff it is and lovely written language. I remember those comics, at least Look and Learn - I bought a 4 inch deep stack on them them years ago at a bootfair. One years worth was in a hardback cover from 1962, my birth year. Was nice seeing some episodes of The Trigan Empire in some of the later issues from the 60's. Finally got around to finding a hardback "annual" of the series by Don Lawrence.

Look and Learn got a lot of stuff wrong cos' I'm wondering where the moon colony is and the personal jetpacks we're supposed to be wearing to commute to work nowadays.

Toddy I can total understand why you read your brother's comics, having glanced at Bunty and the like when my sister had it. Sheesh! Talking fluffy ponies and squirrels and not a single German soldeir crying out "Donner und Blitzen!" or "Gott in himmel!" anywhere. Can see why you crossed over to proper reading material.

On my bookshelf there's an annual of Lion from 1970 and Champion from 1967. When I want a trip back to the days of "Stop thief!" and tales of daring do by boys wearing school caps and shorts I have a glance at those.

Right, after 3 .... 1.2.3 "Let's do the shake and vac to put the freshness back, do the shake and vac and put that freshness back"

My first TV crush >sigh<
 

Laurentius

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John Fenna and JohnathanD.

I didn't mention you find this type of person in every type of hobby or interest, as this is a bushcraft thread, but John you are right......they are everywhere lol. Luckily, and this is just my opinion again, I would say that the buchcraft ones get very little press (maybe some posters feel bear Grylls is part of the problem), and are not in the same league (or as damaging) as thugs calling themselves football fans or any of the extremists who 'tag along' to nearly every protest these days. These small and unrepresentative groups can cause a lot of problems, and make society as a whole very 'anti' to whatever they attach themselves to.

While catching up on this thread, two things sprang into my mind. The first and urgent one was that I needed to eat some chocolate (after reading about two of my all time favourite biscuits lol), the second was an incident I attended some years back: A man had been drinking and had a car crash. He was thrown out of his car and was lying on his back on a grass verge (but breathing well and an 'A' on the AVPU scale, despite being drunk). I suspected he may have a back injury due to the way he was laid (and the fact he had been thrown quite a distance too), so after initial checks, I went back to my car to rig up a neck brace as a starter, until the ambulance arrived. By this time there was a little gaggle of onlookers stood around him to, just looking. Because of this, I didn't notice the woman who turned up and shouted loudly to the onlookers 'stand back I know what I'm doing' and walked straight up to the bloke and rolled him on his side, without even saying hello. What I did hear was the creaky cracky noise of the blokes bones as she rolled him though (by pulling his shirt). I asked her why she had rolled him, and she said it is what needed to happen...To which I responded that I had suspected he had a back injury. She responded back with 'he will be fine now, as he wouldn't be able to breath on his back!'. Once the ambulance had arrived (the bloke did have a back injury) I talked with this woman, and asked her who had trained her to just roll someone over (we're not talking recovery position here lol), and she said that she had just heard on TV that you had to do it, or the casualty will swallow their tongue.

I'm afraid that at the end of the conversation she thought the advice she had heard on TV was far superior to the fact that (at the time) I was an army trained medic and ambulance driver lol.
Just like the bush crafters I mention previously, I guess the other people who saw her actions could have become 'anti' first aiders.

Time for more choccy now!

That is worrying but it reminds me of an incident from my mispent youth. I used to ride a scooter, and I used to drink a lot. (maybe I still do) and after a particular drinking session, I was found by a passer by lying at the side of the road with my scooter on top of my legs. The passer by enquired as to what had happened. "I am just drunk, I replied honestly, I am ok."

Now how I came to be thus was not because I was riding the scooter, oh dear no, that would be illegal, but because I had decided that being over the limit I could push the thing home, alas it fell over on me :)
 

Laurentius

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Ah well all I can say is spangles "old english" flavour, not to mention victory v's before they took the chloroform and ether out. The world is not the same since opal fruits became starbursts, and marathon became snickers.
 

John Fenna

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Folk used to say (before Lord of the Rings was filmed) that I was Black Jake ... Pugwash's sworn enemy....
Not all the old sweeties lived up to their names - "Everlasting strip" toffee is nowhere to be seen these days but at least "Uncle Joes Mint Balls" (of famous song fame) can still be had ...though they have failed to prove as efficatious for me as for "grandpa" :(
I loved the Trigan Empire artwork and tried to draw in that style ....not a chance ... more like drunken spiders dipped in Quink!
 

Biker

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Folk used to say (before Lord of the Rings was filmed) that I was Black Jake ... Pugwash's sworn enemy....

I loved the Trigan Empire artwork and tried to draw in that style ....not a chance ... more like drunken spiders dipped in Quink!

Black Jake. Yup, can see the resemblance John :lmao:

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Did you know that Don Lawrence not only drew the Trigan Empire but also Carrie, an adult cartoon strip that was featured in the Men's mag Mayfair in the 70's. Little factoid there for you.
 

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Black Jake. Yup, can see the resemblance John :lmao:

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Did you know that Don Lawrence not only drew the Trigan Empire but also Carrie, an adult cartoon strip that was featured in the Men's mag Mayfair in the 70's. Little factoid there for you.
I thought there was a good reason that I liked that strip!
 

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Ooh, ooh, ooh, almost forgot this little fella :eek:

Is it just me, or does this Foreign Legionare look like someone we know?

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Sorry about the size - it's the best that I could do :eek: - characters are from Micheal Bentine's Potty Time
 

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