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Post by henry on Jun 7, 2005 12:48:07 GMT
I love these adventure stories they are so good has anyone else read them?
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puppydogstail
Jane Asher
She never cooks, she keeps a filthy house and she talks profanely!
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Post by puppydogstail on Jul 18, 2005 6:00:58 GMT
I loved The Famous Five. It was totally fucked up. Four kids, three siblings, a cousin and and a dog traipsing around the country and having adventures helping to lock up criminals. Blyton was such a rascist prejudiced old bitch! She kindled my lifelong hatred of gypo's, bless her. Token Line: Young gypo girl says to Julian "Mmmmmm, your hands smell nice" Julian to Pikey Slut "Thats because I wash them four or five times a day. You should do the same." Love it. The boys Julian and Dick (Dick! Fnah!) were such a pair of faggots. Both were boarding school boys and throughout the ages 12-16 neither got a fuck. Their little sis Jenifer was such a winging little fucker. And their cousin Georgina was a total lezza. She was a tomboy who loved to fight. The books positively reek of snobbery, elitism and down right upper class cheek. And the language. "I say old boy!" Its straight out of Brief Encounter. They were always packing up a cracking good picknick and fucking off camping. In several episodes they went off in horse drawn caravans, making them ironically enough, Pikeys themelves. The villains always turn out to be, in no particular order : Gypos (filthy fucking Pikeys), Thieving House Servants, Cooks Children, Tall Scary Deaf Men, Circus Perfomers (more filthy Pikeys) Escaped Villains, The Working and Lower Class, The Lazy Layabout Cooks Husband, Any Other Smelly Lower Class Fucker. Writing this has given me t'urge to track these books down and revisit them.
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Post by Adrian on Jul 18, 2005 15:07:35 GMT
Their little sis Jenifer was such a winging little fucker. Wasn't it Anne? -A
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Post by Elly on Jul 18, 2005 22:54:07 GMT
Their little sis Jenifer was such a winging little fucker. Wasn't it Anne? -A It was, but who cares? Anne was really rubbish.
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Su Pollard
I've never been to Cuba
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Post by Anna on Jul 19, 2005 22:33:51 GMT
Anne was the prototype for Bree van der Kampf. I swear in one book she's trapped in a cave and she'd worrying about how to do the ironing or something. Big up the Blyton, though, all the boarding school books were ace, and the "Five Find Outers" and "Adventurous Two" (seems she got slightly less imaginative with the titles as the years went on, but who cares, eh?)
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Post by Steven on Jul 20, 2005 13:14:44 GMT
It was, but who cares? Anne was really rubbish. Never more exemplified than in the ZX Spectrum Famous Five computer game, which I downloaded a while back to relive my misspent youth. You could change to any of the characters (sadly not including Timmy) and yet there was no point whatsoever in which it was necessary to type "BECOME ANNE".
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Post by klee on Jul 20, 2005 13:23:13 GMT
Not forgetting the Secret Seven and the ... Adventure books, which had such imaginative titles as: -
The River Of Adventure The Mountain Of Adventure The Valley Of Adventure The Ship Of Adventure The S&M Dungeon Of Adventure
I mention the last one as has anyone else ever thought about just how much tying up their was in Enid Blyton adventure stories. No matter what happened, there was always a scene or two in which the interfering little busy-bodies heroes were tied up and dumped in a cave or dark cellar. From memory, Enid was very good on describing the sensation of hemp chaffing young, tender, struggling skin.
Enid was a bondage queen! Yet another childhood illusion shattered.
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