Posted by Tiggy on March 31, 2001 at 13:02:32:
In Reply to: Oh, love those cunning linguists! posted by Polly Glotte on March 30, 2001 at 20:51:16:
: : 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.