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I find myself irritated by a recent spate of NewsBiscuit contributors writing Popeye's girlfriend's name as Olive Oil.
Please note that the correct spelling is Olive Oyl.
NewsBiscuit contributors are expected to distort, twist and exaggerate news stories out of all proportion, same as any other journalist, but spelling people's names incorrectly is, frankly, shoddy, inexcusable and rude.
Thank you.
Author's note:
The spelling is correct in the submissions. The EU were mucking about with olive oil not Olive Oyl. There was no intent to spell a name so a spelling error could not have taken place.
The thoughts about Olive Oyl took place in your mind, exactly where intended.
I'd go with a different spelling - Tweety Pie.
That's very true Arthur, you just need to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of TV Talent and reality shows and have watched every soap ever.
The answer, to the best of my knowledge, is Tweety, though I was reading a book on the history of WB cartoons at the time. Of course everyone else answered 'Tweety Pie', which is how audiences came to refer to him. Twenty five quid's worth of beer lost due to a poor refereeing decision.
The Warner Bros site refers to him as 'Tweety Pie'. I demand a recount.
Ooh, I should remember that from 'Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries.' Which was a bit like a cartoon 'Murder She Wrote' with a cat and canary as the Jessica Fletcher-type character's sidekicks.
Cheated and looked it up - If you don't want to know the result, look away now...
We once missed out on a roll-over jackpot of ££££s by not knowing that "Rosery" was the difficult 2nd album of Pope John Paul II. Ironically my stock anwser to unknown rock bands was/is John Paul and the Love Pumps. We was robbed.
Also: Poor quizmasters download free quizzes off of the Interweb. Often these have a deliberate wrong answer to encourage paying £1 for a proper quiz. We got one of those in the pub up north years ago. I pointed out that everyone would have got it wrong so it was an even playing field. Anyone who got it "right" would be caught cheating. The landlady had to change her team's answer. The stranger who won the £500 accumulator the following week turned out to be her dad!
On a similar note to Tweety. The girl with the glass slipper was Ella. Her nickname was Cinder-Ella as she cleaned the fires out. And it wasn't glass, it was badly translated squirel skin.
Anything else you want to know?
Also, where did I leave the case-notes I wrote up?
@Dick: Broadstairs, Kent, where they lead down from the garden of a house called St Cuby, Cliff Promenade, to the beach.
They are now concrete, and part of the original wooden ones (which had initially been counted by Buchan's 6-year-old daughter, and much later demolished) were packed up and sent to Buchan.
In the novel, they were a coded reference to the point on the coast from where a German spy was due to set sail.
(Please excuse me while I go and change into a fresh anorak.)
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