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537:- Plucky 14-year-old working-class school-girl solving crimes at her posh boarding school "the most exclusive academy in England for young English-Women" - located in the village of Slumber-on-the-Chintz. Weekly cliff-hangers which were improbably resolved, e.g., "with the help of this gun I happen to have". She has a former milkman's horse called "Milko" who has only 3-legs and so is referred to as "Crooked Milko" with which she attempts to win the gymkhana using his "superior dressage skills". Using a blend of class styles, she writes letters home with Cockney rhyming-slang expressions but addresses the letter to "Mater and Pater". Presumably her surname refers to 516:, or as inside jokes "Well, Master A. Hitler, I'd give up the painting, if I were you, the samples showed little promise, why not try some other hobby, say, public speaking .. few guns might be handy". All in a jolly, paternalistic, bombastic and often misogynistic style with sound effects suggesting additional off-mic activities (frequently shooting as he is evidently "gun" obsessed). His first name is revealed to be Fortinbras when he reads out a letter from a female reader accusing him of abandonment. 870:. A journalling explorer in Waoon Province with his "talented but inexpensive" guide Wattombi. He journals florid passages on the beauty of nature - which he then shoots and eats. On encountering a "white native" who insists his name is "Reggie" - he shoots him on the grounds the "plus fours and pith helmet weren't fooling anybody". He is boiled by pygmy cannibals setting of the expedition of Selsden Mace. 22: 158:
days of the 20th century, "a magazine for young and old across the English-speaking world" featuring "Your old chum" the Editor (McGowan) presenting regular features, adventure stories, practical advice, readers letters, etc., complete with advertisements. An enthusiastic young reader (Baynham) could
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A Welsh preacher who provides little in the way of constructional detail beyond what can be discerned from the breaking up the title of the item. He relies on illustration "Plates" and "Figures" - which are rendered as sound-effects. He tends to end by waxing lyrical via an ode which the reader
387:- xenophobic stereotypes of "Johnny Foreigner" including such peoples as the Italians "Girls, a touch too keen to get his grubby hands on the contents of your bodice" or the Welsh "Bore-da to you, Evanses". Illustrated by photographs. 591:- sports instructress for Margate Young Women's Correctional Facility. Demonstrations by members of the Carshalton Breast Strokers. A jolly-hockey-sticks type who seems to harbor erotic thoughts about her under-age charges. 512:("Your Old Chum") - who presents both the "front-piece" - a read table of contents - and the Harpoon Club readers letters on the "rear-pages", with answers to (unstated) reader's questions, often for innuendo a la 272:- "..with 6 colour plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations..", "Price, sevenpence ha'penny net" (with higher prices for special editions), "..available throughout the Empire", "all rights reserved". 180:
were of high quality, as was technical production, using 'authentic' voices, sound effects, and music to evoke the era and create the impression of a magazine being read. The series has been released on
671:- "The tallest midget in Christendom". An Irish 6 foot 4 inch circus performer whose act consists of drinking lemonade on a bed, he yearns to be free of this intolerable circus life. 953:. A Scottish character with the catchphrase "Hello m'deerios" dispensing advice on mainly culinary matters while considering non-culinary items "no use whatsoever". Somewhat 585:- an equine presenter of the "cutout-and-keep" gift. The gift can turn out to be in several parts because it is a scale 1:1 "Oast House" that should not be assembled indoors. 828:
character). He has a 50% success ratio, for example in 1968 the motorways are "of solid oak construction". The cars are supersonic but have "silver-plated crank-handles".
1160:- Stonko Products - a sheet of plate glass that will shatter when dropped onto a hard surface. Stonko Products, Ltd, formerly Braithwaites Glass Works, Yorkshire. 619:- Toby's young chum who is "unusually well-built". Castrated by "underpaid grape crushers". Westcountry accent. Has been in the second form for seventeen years. 781:
The Harpoon's contents were written by a wide-assortment of guest authors with satirical, posh-sounding names very much in the naming style of J.B. Morton in
565:- Scottish Headmistress of MeadowFields. Turns out to be the leader of the white-slavers. Revealed to be Sheik Mustafa Snape leader of the white-slave gang. 163:
attitudes towards such topics as education, class, sex, race, war, and the avuncular, paternalistic style adopted by interwar boys' publications like the
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The Cruel Lagoon, She Pushed Too Hard, Gyspy Begone, The Fiery Totem, He Courted a Slave, The Red Belgian, Saved by a Stilton, To Love a Costermonger.
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translated as "Orange Tombstone Flannel", the princess of Lanada who marries Howard after he falls on and kills her mother and so makes her Queen.
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who delivers the magazine to The Reader, whistling as he does so, apparently tracking him down even when he is on vacation far away from his home.
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Locks himself in the house and starves to death even though he has a six-month supply of food strapped to the roof of his Bentley outside.
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be heard turning (and once accidentally tearing) the pages and occasionally commenting. Much of the humour rested upon anachronistic,
143:. It consisted of three four-part series and two Christmas specials, and was performed by Julian Dutton, Peter Baynham, Susie Brann, 1084:
supposedly frank advice that "a young wife will have to perform for her husband on their honeymoon" - which involves machine-sewing.
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in the title was underscored by the illustrated front cover of the magazine, i.e. the opening music/sound effects of the programme.
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A harpoon being fired and apparently hitting some large beast which expires with a theatrical groan that was added in Episode 2.
1269: 320:- written by the Rev. A. Morris, which has features like "How to build an uphill sledge" -> by attaching a rope to a sledge. 47: 1211:- a machine for flattening dead frogs to put them into an album. Simpson Sledgehammers Ltd.33 The Crescent, Blandford Forum. 631:- The three sidekicks of General Patata. Gazpacho rides a donkey called Paella and sings to it as it dies (again and again). 547:- Maisie Drummond's best friend, with an Anglo-Indian accent. She keeps getting kidnapped. Her mount is called Murray Mint. 94: 455:
with Nurse Dennis - "an alphabet of universal knowledge". Introduced by examples like "from angina to Zulus, removal of".
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Word Teazer - make more thematic words from a simple set like using "A Pot" and suggest words related to rabbit-keeping.
66: 43: 1187:- so invisible it appears not be effective. Chuck Morisson's Business Enterprises Ltd., Above the Chip-Shop, Worthing. 266:- A picture of a whaling ship "The Harpoon" with "oilskinned sailors greasing their harpoons and dreaming of blubber". 214: 1154:- "..well-appointed, genteel, affording splendid vistas of adjacent deer-park". J.Brown, 93 Burma Crescent, Toxteth. 559:- Maisie and the Mildred's "rotund chum" who is "fat, wears glasses and likes jam tarts, but is a good egg really". 73: 782: 32: 825: 381:- "fascinating facts at the foot of the page". These "facts" are either trivial observations or non-sequiturs. 80: 443:- "a loom" - spotting which would give the first reader to do so a "pocket-knife with bulls-eye attachment". 51: 36: 1142:
Cigarettes - "Promote health, vigor and happiness". "Guaranteed high-tar for clear lungs and fresh breath".
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How to Build a ..Wheelbarrow, ..Sledge, ..Chicken-Coop, ..WorkBench, ..Lectern, ..Goose-Restrictor, ..Wig.
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Goes to Antarctica rather than Africa and is lost, setting off the expedition of Carsholton Edgar.
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A sequence journals of expeditions to find other explorers starting with Edmund Colt's ala
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A series of audio-rendered "Figures" illustrating stages in an improbable creatures life.
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Upper-class obsessive with a lisp. Journeys to Peru to find natives that worship sap.
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She skated 'til she dropped, The Ballet Shoe Was Missing, They Found the Ballet Shoe.
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Kiss of the Cowhand - Prior Work - The Golden Toga, Pascoe Jack, I Shaved a Shepherd
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Spot the difference - two audio-illustrated "pictures" with very obvious differences
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Answers to last week's puzzles (improbable answers to questions which are not given)
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Scattered throughout the magazine, usually asking the reader to write in response.
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I Paid Her Well, Guttersnipe Jim, Luncheon or Death, I Packed My Chiffon NeckTie.
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Suffers from a nasal obstruction, possibly brought on by a lack of "nose-cosy"
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and Mary Elliott-Nelson. It was produced ("on stretched goat's vellum") by
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An archeologist who disturbed the tomb of Zargon The Great of Mesopotamia.
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ridiculous predictions of what is to come based on a 1920s perspective.
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An Old Etonian accent rather like James Fox or Mr Chumley-Warner (a
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Reader submitted "joke-ettes", prize a five shilling postal order
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As in a real magazine, certain features recur in many "issues" -
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Answers to Readers Letters - again with questions not provided
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Crimes in Hoxton and Surrounding Villages - An Annual report
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would-be comb inventor - experiments include "varm milch"
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Among other pieces, some music found during the series:
736:- medic - winner of the "seal-pup hurling competition". 1166:- a device to remind "the busy housewife" to buy pork. 154:The programme was a spoof of boys' comics from the 135:series broadcast between 1991 and 1994, written by 689:- the knife admirer and rival for Eva's attentions 332:- illustrated lifecycles of fictional "creatures". 613:actually a Group-Captain in British Intelligence. 801:(wisely) turns the page away from in mid-stream. 1217:Bachelors Microscope Emporium, Cheam, PO Box 10 846:Wonders of Nature. Lifecycle of the Dutch Clog. 303:- an adventure serial "in the land of the Dago" 1178:"nasal pleasure at its finest" sponsor of the 169:in addressing their readers. The reference to 8: 1126:A WWI tale of badger heroism and derring-do. 760:- team household product salesman who did a 338:where the "cutout-and-keep" gift is located. 242:traditional, (Maisie Drummond's school song) 50:. 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