BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!

Subject: Happy birthday Plug, Danny, Fatty...
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 11:25 AM

How could we have let this pass by unmentioned?

For you non-Brits ... it's a Brit thing, you wouldn't understand!

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Sooz
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 12:13 PM

Indeed a great milestone which should not go unrecorded!

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 03:04 PM

We took assorted grandchildren to The Bash Street Kids Touring Exhibition at The DLI* museum some years back. None of the schoolkids outfits would fit me but the Leo Baxendale video was great.
* Durham Light Infantry
50 Years !!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 04:07 PM

Is this a Plug?
Smiffy is fiffy?

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Feb 04 - 06:02 PM

I always thought the teacher looked liked Potter from Please Sir!

And I wanted real Numbskulls in my head, I wanted them to prop my eyes up with matchsticks from the inside.

And the hedonistic pleasure of a Beano Annual on Christmas morning.

Minnie the Minx, Pansy Potter, Keyhole Kate..they are all merging into one now, and Billy the Whizz,and and and and.............

Could never get along with the story about a colonel/seargeant/major/some sort of soldier....the page always looked awash with khaki and I think it took up the centre pages, maybe it was The Beezer though,the broadsheet of the day.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 03:56 AM

There was Corporal Clot in the Beano (or was it the Dandy?), and Colonel Blink -- The short-sighted gink in the Beezer. (And who can remember the words to the Ballad of Baby Crocket?)

Some of the jingles only worked in Scotland (D C Thompsonm is a Scottish publisher), like Pansy Potter -- The strongman's dotter.

Kids today - they don't know what they're missing! We had so much in the fifties that kids don't have today -- polio, diphtheria, rickets ...

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 04:07 AM

....scarlet fever, mumps, skiffles. I'm still suffering from those childhood skiffles, scars you for life you know...I soon gave up the Dandy and Beano for Wizard and Hotspur and then the Eagle of course.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 04:44 AM

what about the hillies and the billies in the Beezer- some of those spreads were funny.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 05:08 AM

Yeah but Smiffy always gets things wrong.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 08:49 AM

I was a memeber of the offical Plug fan club for years in my adult life! Not that I ever realy grew up...

Can't find anything on Google. Wonder if it is still going??? Perhaps I could start another one:-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 09:59 AM

I share the 50 not out with the Bash Street Kids. It's my fiftieth on the 24th FEb.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 10:08 AM

Nobbut a lad then.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 11:53 AM

Most (all?) of you won't bre aware, but Plug grew up to become a Physics Master at Queen Mary's Grammar School in Walsall.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 03:52 AM

Hell think of it 50 years old and still at school. No wonder they say the education system is failing.

Subject: RE: BS: The Bash St Kids are 50!
From: Cobble
Date: 19 Feb 04 - 09:11 PM

The teacher did look like the janitor off please sir. Dandy and Beano Saturday mornings Brill.

             Cobble