Post #200,818
3/27/05 10:35:00 PM
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Peter and other "youngish euros"
I grew up reading crossatlantic lend lease versions of Capt. W. E. Johns Biggles books. Did you yonkers ever read that? Curious minds want to know. Also I think in regards to biggles et al, the black adder series has a few cousins to investigate :-)
thanx,
bill
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Post #200,819
3/27/05 10:39:29 PM
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Re: Peter and other "youngish euros"
Not read it, am familiar with the characters though; they're a part of our national consciousness.
Peter
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Post #200,839
3/28/05 2:46:55 AM
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Pretty well aware of Biggles here also.
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
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Post #200,852
3/28/05 9:41:20 AM
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never heard of Biggles before
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Post #200,858
3/28/05 10:06:03 AM
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Back atcha
I grew up with the original Tom Swift series (Tom Swift and His Motorcycle, Tom Swift and His Airship, etc), with its dizzying profusion of adverbs*. A puffed-up little snob even then, I regarded the "TS Junior" line as vile travesties. An old friend of mine, English-born, was raised on Biggles, but appears in latter childhood to have preferred the comic book adventures of a manly commando NCO ("Sergeant Steroid" or something like that).
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Post #200,863
3/28/05 10:34:03 AM
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"... leaving them hanging?"
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Post #200,953
3/28/05 6:05:14 PM
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sgt fury and his howling commandos
with izzy,reb, corporal duggan etc
I also was a huge fan of the Tom Swift series.
thanx,
bill
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Post #201,533
4/1/05 10:08:39 AM
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not sgt fury, I think
This was an Albionese product. The beret-wearing commando was shaped like an inverted triangle and\ufffdJesus Christ, what the fuck is that lemur doing here??
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Post #200,954
3/28/05 6:06:44 PM
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Not Union Jack Jackson...
...in Warlord comic?
Peter
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Post #200,927
3/28/05 4:01:41 PM
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Dunno if I'm a "yonker", and furthermore dunno...
...what you're asking:
A) Yes, of course I've read(*) Biggles; how could one not?!?
B) No, I've never read any specific lend-lease version thereof; didn't even know such a thing existed.
(*): At that age, I still read my originally-foreign-language literature (if that's not too strong a word) in Swedish translation, though.
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