The Princess and the Goblins

[The Mouse]

Anyone see the TV programme on Enid Blyton? Bit of a shock.

When I was teaching the LA went through a stage of political correctness relating to books in schools and someone came from the libraries and removed all her books said they were too middle class. They also removed all stories with stereotypes e.g. girls doing girlie things and boys doing boysie things. Our library was very bare after their visit!!!

If I remember rightly Noddy and Big Ears relationship had to be scrutinised and cleaned up and the golly had to go!!! Weren't the Noddy books republished?

You mean they suspected they were more than good friends?
So how long will it be before it's made compulsory reading for the 5 and 6 year-olds, as part of their sex education classes!!

[glallotments]

If I remember rightly Noddy and Big Ears relationship had to be scrutinised and cleaned up and the golly had to go!!! Weren't the Noddy books republished?

You mean they suspected they were more than good friends?
So how long will it be before it's made compulsory reading for the 5 and 6 year-olds, as part of their sex education classes!!

That's exactly what they thought it was Big Ears invitation to Noddy to spend the night that got them hot under the collar. Strange as it never occurred to me!!

[Catherine]

I was never a girly girl, definately a tom boy, my twin sister was a girly girl lots of dolls and things, I was outside no matter what the weather was and if I wasnt outside then I was reading. I think I used to go through three to four books a week. At night under the bedclothes I used to read with a torch always getting in to trouble for that. I never liked Noddy and Big Ears, or Sooty and Sweep. Give me the wooden tops any time, and Bill and Ben the flower pot men. Even as I type the words the song comes into my head.

[alan refail]

I don't normally stoop to quoting from the Daily Mail, but here's a Noddy story brought up to dat which they published a few years ago:

'Hello, Big Ears,' said Noddy.
'Less of the Big,' said Big Ears. 'I've just had them surgically reduced on the NHS.
The bandages come off next Thursday.'
'But I thought they'd closed down Toytown Cottage Hospital. Tory cuts or something,' said Noddy.
'You funny little Noddy,' said Big Ears. 'Not the cosmetic surgery ward, just the accident and emergency department and the maternity unit.'
'That's a relief. I'm booked in for tattoo removal on Friday,' said Noddy. 'Speaking of tattoos, have you seen Sammy Sailor?'
'Gay pride march, then off to Ben Bradshaw's wedding,' said Big Ears.
'So who's running the Toytown Harbour?' said Noddy.
'No one. It's closed,' said Big Ears. 'Health and safety.'
'What, like the children's playground?' said Noddy.
'The very same. That woman from Toytown Council slapped an enforcement order on Sammy. She said someone could drown,' said Big Ears.
'But no one has ever drowned in Toytown Harbour,' said Noddy.
'No one in Toytown has ever died of variant CJD, either. But that didn't stop them burning all Mr Straw the Farmer's cows,' said Big Ears.
'I suppose that's what killed the Toytown butcher's shop,' said Noddy.
'No, that was the new out-of-Toytown Tesco's,' said Big Ears.
'That would explain the baker's and candlestick maker's, too. No wonder the High Street's quiet. Mind you, what was all that kerfuffle earlier? I was bringing a fare back from the Toytown Table
Dancing Club and All-Night Casino in my red-and-yellow taxi at four o'clock this morning and Mr Plod had blocked the road off,' said Noddy.
'Anti-terror raid,' said Big Ears. 'Someone tipped off Plod that they were making chemical weapons at the Toytown Mosque.'
'Golly gosh,' said Noddy.
'You can say that again. Plod called in reinforcements from all over ? Trumpton, Camberwick Green, Dingly Dell. There must have been at least 300 coppers swarming all over the place.'
'Did they find anything?' said Noddy.
'A couple of Viagra tablets and a packet of chicken vindaloo mix. Toxic, but not strictly a weapon of mass destruction,' said Big Ears.
'Anyone hurt?' said Noddy.
'Fatwa Fox got shot, but it was only a flesh wound. According to Gorgeous George, from the Toytown Respect Party, Fatwa could be looking at half a million in compensation,' said Big Ears.
'But that's ten times what Mr Wobbly Man got for being blown up in the Toytown Tube bombing,' said Noddy.
'The law moves in mysterious ways,' said Big Ears.
'You're not kidding. I've been flashed twice in the past couple of days by those new average speed cameras. Once more and I'll lose my licence,' said Noddy. 'And then who'll take Asbo Bear and his probation officer to Alton Towers?'
'Tell me about it,' said Big Ears. 'I left my car for two minutes on a single-yellow outside the Toytown Substance Abuse Drop-In Centre and when I came out it had been towed away.'
'You sure that wasn't the goblins? We've had nothing but trouble since they set up an illegal camp on the Toytown Memorial Bowling Green,' said Noddy. 'I've lost two lawnmowers and a tandem. Should've let them tarmac my drive when they offered.'
'Plod won't do anything about the members of the goblin community, as he calls them. Says it would be an infringement of their human rights,' said Big Ears.
'Can't stand around here chatting all day,' said Noddy. 'I'm due at the Palace for a kiddies' garden party. Plod's already left. I saw him loading his Heckler & Koch machine-gun into the back of his armed response unit about half an hour ago.'
'Why haven't I been invited?' said Big Ears.
'You were, remember? But you said you were going to Stuttgart for the football,' said Noddy.
'That was before they took my passport off me,' said Big Ears. 'After I got arrested during the Trumpton Riots.'
'Postman Pat will be there. It's his last job before they close the Post Office and make him redundant,' said Noddy. 'And Jonathan Ross is the compere.'
'Did you see him with Call Me Dave the other night? Disgusting,' said Big Ears.
'Who, Jonathan Ross?' said Noddy.
'No, you funny little Noddy, Call Me Dave. He's a right chancer if you ask me,' said Big Ears.
'Must dash,' said Noddy, climbing into his red-and-yellow taxi just as the clamping van turned the corner by the Toytown Asylum Hostel.
'Parp, parp!'


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[glallotments]

. I never liked Noddy and Big Ears, or Sooty and Sweep. Give me the wooden tops any time, and Bill and Ben the flower pot men. Even as I type the words the song comes into my head.

I liked Sooty and Sweep but wasn't a Noddy Fan either.

Was also definitely a Wooden Tops fan but it was on Friday when I went to my grandmas for my lunch and she didn't have a TV so most weeks I missed it. Thought Rag Tag and Bobtail was boring though.

[The Mouse]

Well I always preferred Postman Pat!
But that's giving away my children's age, not mine!!!

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Bert, watch out for Jess.

[The Mouse]

Dear Bert, watch out for Jess.

That's where Pat's sack comes in useful, OH.
And if Jess escapes from there, I've got a very handy water pistol!