http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 17:05:43 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71616 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:48:19 +0000 Tristan Shout 71616@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It may have been an intentional double meaning...the comma ambiguous. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71592 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:39:54 +0000 waylandsmithy 71592@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Poverish is fine. It means 'of or like a pover'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71590 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:37:38 +0000 Le Creuset Fiend 71590@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Worse - I appear to have rubbed salt into the wounds of my ignorance by somehow managing to type the phrase "a poverished", which isn't even English.</p> <p>I can't begin to tell you how much this is all rocking my world. I don't know who I am any more. </p> <p>Never mind slitting palms - I'm looking closely at my wrists right now....</p> <p>The shame. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71589 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:35:43 +0000 waylandsmithy 71589@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I used to think the Wombles were real, but Wimbledon Common was made up. It was all bits of cardboard, but the Wombles were 3D. A bit like Paddington. Completely fictional place, that a real bear made up. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71581 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:40:39 +0000 Ironduke 71581@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Le Creuset Friend, what a consolation that I was not alone in my misaprehension. </p> <p>They say everyone has an Ignorance Twin, and by some miracle we've found each other.</p> <p>Slit our palms and shake hands now? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71579 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:36:55 +0000 Le Creuset Fiend 71579@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>I was always misled by the pause in the song title and thought they were admitting to being of a rather low-born stock</p> <p>'Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we' </blockquote></p> <p>Oh my good God. I'm 28 years old, and I've only just realised that it referred to Wimbledon Common. I thought until this very day that they had a poverished upbringing, hence all the making use of rubbish. The sad thing is that I'm not joking. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71578 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:19:33 +0000 waylandsmithy 71578@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hopefully the Flumps will show up, and rain them off the stage with bottles of piss. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71545 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:38:05 +0000 The All New Jeni B 71545@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I do hope this doesn't cause an upset with the Ley-Lines...<br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-13702105" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-13702105</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71516 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:00:51 +0000 Ironduke 71516@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>excellent post; I do believe WimbledonFC got relegated some time ago if thats any use (and moved to Milton Keynes, just to rub in the disgrace).</p> <p>I was always misled by the pause in the song title and thought they were admitting to being of a rather low-born stock</p> <p>'Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71509 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:33:18 +0000 rickwestwell 71509@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, but she was a very busy Womble... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71494 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:31:54 +0000 The All New Jeni B 71494@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Did anyone else wonder where all the young Wombles came from?<br /> As far as I can remember, Madame Cholet was the only female Womble ever mentioned. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71431 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:50:49 +0000 Oxbridge 71431@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Aooh yes, 5*.</p> <p>Mind you, I don't think anything very terrible has happened to Cholet in deepest rural France recently. In fact, I'm not sure anything has ever happened there at all, unless you're going to link it to the French team tanking at the World Cup. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71428 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:54:17 +0000 saltire 71428@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You've had a raise then Rik.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71417 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:58:36 +0000 rikkor 71417@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Westwell is paying me US $0.10/hour to promote his subs. This one is great. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71384 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:09:28 +0000 rikkor 71384@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I know. Anonymously tagging "piss poor" wasn't very nice. If you have a sh-tty comment to make, man- or woman-up and vent your spleen in a sub. </p> <p>I think "foot riots" should be kept as is. In time, your sub will become the Treacle Bible of literary collectors. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71346 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:40:05 +0000 fun and games 71346@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lovely idea Rick </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71342 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:17:17 +0000 The All New Jeni B 71342@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oh, I though it should have read 'frood rots'.<br /> You live and learn... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71310 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:49:47 +0000 rickwestwell 71310@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Many thanks, Jeni. </p> <p>But damn - 'foot riots'? Piss-poor, if you ask me.</p> <p>It should of course have read 'foom riots'. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71288 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:40:26 +0000 The All New Jeni B 71288@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Damn you Westwell!<br /> I'm fed up of you and your clever, well crafted, humorous subs.</p> <p>Just one little point though, are you quite sure there were 'foot' riots in Bulgaria? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71285 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:53:56 +0000 waylandsmithy 71285@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think it needs more references to bumming. 'Making good use of every behind'. That was the lyrics. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71283 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:20:01 +0000 rickwestwell 71283@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lovely tag - terrible thing, jealousy... :-) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=26173#post-71233 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:49:30 +0000 rickwestwell 71233@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The so-called "Curse of the Wombles" seems to have struck again, after earthquakes measuring up to magnitude seven rocked the New Zealand city of Wellington, causing widespread damage. This is only the latest in a series of natural and man-made disasters occurring in places with the same name as characters in Elisabeth Beresford's "Womble" children's stories.</p> <p>According to the first book, young Wombles reaching the age of four are summoned to Great Uncle Bulgaria's study to look through his atlas and choose a town, country or river to name themselves after. If, as invariably happens, they are unable to decide, they simply "shut their eyes tight and point and hope for the best." </p> <p>In a curious turn of events, however, every place picked as the name for a Womble has quickly suffered some dreadful catastrophe, far more frequently than simple random chance would dictate. Bulgaria itself was the scene of failed harvests and foot riots shortly after the first Wombles book was published, Japan's Bungo province frequently endures devastating seismic activity, and the great Orinoco river is now so polluted as to be completely devoid of all aquatic life, and sees frequent drownings. Elisabeth Beresford is now regarded as something of a modern-day Nostradamus; her writings are pored over closely by researchers from the insurance industry.</p> <p>Such is the belief in the Womble curse, many city mayors and regional governors are now petitioning rights holders Bloomsbury publishing not to be included in future books, a demand which only increased after the Chernobyl disaster rendered the Siberian city of Tomsk uninhabitable for the next thousand years. Unconfirmed reports indicate that the publishers will only agree to a request on payment of a substantial amount of money, leading many to believe that the whole Wombles thing is nothing more than a gigantic protection racket, albeit one with sound underlying green credentials.</p> <p>Wombling controversy is nothing new. Campaigner Mary Whitehouse lobbied heavily against the "modern attitudes" of the pop group of the same name in the seventies, saying: "It's disgusting. Take their classic 'Remember you're a Womble' - it goes: 'When it's foggy on the common and you just can't see, and I Womble into you, and you Womble into me, just remember we're so lucky to be Wombling free...' Well, we know just what these long-haired hippies were singing about. Replace 'Womble' with 'ejaculate' and what have you got, eh? Filth!" </p>