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Discussion Groups / English Usage / August 2010Enid Blyton's Little Noddy on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour
Little Noddy is a wooden toy who lives in Toytown with his friends who include Big Ears and Mr. Plod the policeman. The first book I ever read was Noddy Goes To School; Noddy begins to learn things, his head swells, he can't put his long, blue hat with a bell on the end on his swollen noddle and cries; I heard there was concern in some quarters that some little children might really believe their heads would swell! Over the years, Noddy books have been updated; a slipper on a peg (for chastisement) was edited out of a colour picture in one book, but, said the Woman's Hour presenter, 'some changes have been quite amusing!'. In the 50s, she related, IIRC, how in one Noddy book our hero falls into a thorn bush and says... 'It's a good job my little body is made of wood or I would be covered with pricks!'. LOL! This went out on a Sunday afternoon! :-D Nick from England > Little Noddy is a wooden toy who lives in Toytown with his friends who > 'It's a good job my little body is made of wood or I would be covered with > pricks!'. > > LOL! Ho hum. The late 1990s called... they want their "LOL" and emoticon back. Having said that, one can obtain sniggers by finding quaint language in a number of old children's books, e.g. the Biggles ones where the characters frequently ejaculate. There is a paragraph about this in the Wikipedia entry. > > Little Noddy is a wooden toy who lives in Toytown with his friends who > > 'It's a good job my little body is made of wood or I would be covered with [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > where the characters frequently ejaculate. There is a paragraph about > this in the Wikipedia entry. And there is a girl called "Titty" in Swallows and Amazons... What pisses me off is when Radio 7 presenters apologize for the language in repeats from some years back. They broadcast "The L-shaped Room" in 15 minute episodes, before each one there was a warning or an apology or something. When they rebroadcast the week's episodes one after the other in the omnibus edition, the warnings stayed in. It sounded ridiculous: hearing five warning in the space of a 45 minute programme. I do wish that the BBC would come to realise that just because they don't like certain attitudes that does not mean that we are incapable of enjoying broadcasts in which they feature without a warning.  SignatureNeedle, nardle, noo. On Aug 30, 5:13 pm, Frederick Williams <frederick.willia...@tesco.net> wrote: > > > Little Noddy is a wooden toy who lives in Toytown with his friends who > > > 'It's a good job my little body is made of wood or I would be covered with [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > -- > Needle, nardle, noo. There was a disclaimer on BBC Radio 7's Steptoe & Son recently... '....the language reflects the times...'. Albert (Wilfred Brambell) comments on son Harold's (Harry H. Corbett) new, posh, older friend... ''E's a POOF!!!!!'. Still funny after over forty years! Nick from England > > Little Noddy is a wooden toy who lives in Toytown with his friends who > > 'It's a good job my little body is made of wood or I would be covered with [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > where the characters frequently ejaculate. There is a paragraph about > this in the Wikipedia entry. LOL - I remember Biggles on TV, but I was more a William Tell man, me! Nick from England |
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