Phoenix ... lots and lots of flirty fun

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:09 pm

cardinal richelieu wrote:I think you're amalgamating all the different comics into 1? And the Eggheads were the Numbskulls weren't they?

There were The 3 Bears in the Beano .. and Walter the Softie....

Beano was crap anyway... now Whizzer n Chips was a real comic... Bumpkin Billionaires, Mustapha Million ... ah ... fond, if hazy memories.

whizzer and chips was the mutts nuts, not only was it much better than the beano it was invariably always bigger, much more bang for your buck

and i think calamity james had segment in the beano

didnt dennis the menaces two dogs have their own section at one point? gnasher and gnipper or summat?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:10 pm

I remember one about a hunter, but he might have been chasing the 3 bears.

I take it Beryl the Peryl was from another comic then? I've got a vivid memory of her and Minnie the Minx appearing in the same strip, but maybe that was just a wayward fantasy.

What about Corky the Cat? Or was he The Dandy too?

Bah. I give up.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:13 pm

Jimmy mac finishes the relay. so over to liverpool next.

btw, amongst others, you could also have had ball boy, lord snooty, biffo the bear and hard nut the nigger (honestly, this is true)

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:29 pm

liverpool is gonna take a pass into the next round champions league styleeeeeeeeee

going away tomorrow so cant guarantee i'm gonna be about to reply unluess i ask something comlpletely simple and pointless.

so whoever fancies a pop please go ahead

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:30 pm

Richard Hannay is the hero of which book ?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:42 am

The 39 steps?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:50 am

Heh. I've just had a quick look for the real answer, and I've found I'm right.... I did that book in primary school, but don't remember the first detail about it.

Anyway, non-existent plaudits aside, earlier to my very easy question about towns with exclamation marks, can you name any towns in Britain with an apostrophe.... NOT including places with cop-out ownership placenames like King's Lynn.

There could well be loads... I've not really given it a good ponder.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:23 am

hmm. must be an ellliptical apostrophe then, is there somewhere called tam o' shanter?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:31 am

Er... probably, even though I've no idea what an elliptical apostrophe is.

Tam O' Shanter?

Don't think so, but you're on the right lines.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:37 am

john o' groats?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:48 am

Bingo!

The one I was thinking of originally was Bo'ness, which is a wee town on the Forth (I lived there for a year or two). It's full name is Borrowstouness, but it never get's called that.

Over to you sir.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:08 am

since i had ebola yesterday a question about disease:

which fluid was the world's first proven medicine?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:10 am

Whisky? (or some other spirit)

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:48 am

not a spirit.

darcle · Post by **darcle** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:49 am

Penicilin?