Posted by Polly Glotte on March 30, 2001 at 20:51:16:
In Reply to: Re: Ok, KB, I mean Tiggy... posted by Tiggy on March 30, 2001 at 19:38:50:
: I am always interested in cultural differences, especially linguistic ones.
: Here there was a programme called 'Captain Pugwash', a kids cartoon about a group of rather congenial pirates.
: Two of the characters were Seaman Staines and Master Bates.
: We also had a programme called 'Rainbow' where a male froglike character called Zippy, regularly went to bed with a pink male hippopotamus type character called George who carried a handbag and wore curlers in bed.