Underground, overground

[venta]

There is a bit of technology called Bango. Someone at work has been looking at what it is and how it does it.

Colleague #1: How did you get on with Bongo?
Colleague #2: Do you mean Bango?
Colleague #3: Bingo!
Me: There was a womble called Bungo.
Colleague #4: No there wasn't!
Me: Yes there was!
C#4: Where in the world is called Bungo?
C#3: Do you mean Bungle?
C#4: Yes, are you thinking of Rainbow?
Me: No a womble... look, here on Wikipedia there's a picture of Bungo Womble.
C#4: Well, where is he named after?
Me: Wikipedia says he's named after a province in Japan...

Somewhere in there, the work part of the conversation gave up and died. Another success!

Otherly, have you appreciated your sysadmin today?

Comments

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Is it not normal to be able to name all the Wombles then?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Of course it is, I just work with freaks. Some of them are even weirdos.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

There are an awful lot of them, if you include all the books and the additional multi-racial ones added for the TV show. But not being able to name Bungo is pretty poor, frankly.

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Pshaw - there aren't that many! Hmm - I can't actually remember if there are any in the books that aren't in the TV programme. *goes to find out*

[venta.livejournal.com]

There were definitely new ones for the telly series. I used to have a McDonalds toy of Stepney sitting on my desk, and there definitely was no Stepney when I read the books. I wonder where she's got to.

(At least I think it was a she. It's a bit hard to tell with Wombles. Also, I think Stepney might have been mixed race, but without other Wombles to colour-compare with it was hard to tell!)

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

I thought Stepney was male, but wouldn't swear to it. Hmm, the Wikipedia entry is being annoying and vague about whether characters are in books, TV programmes, or both. However, there are certainly characters there that I didn't know about!

(And I used to - maybe even still do - have all the Happy Meal wombles :) )

[venta.livejournal.com]

This list:

http://www.fidella.com/womble/womble_names.html

... seems to say whether they come from books or telly.

Doesn't give genders, though!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

At least I think it was a she.

Seems unlikely - female Wombles are, IIRC, fantastically rare!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, by "all" I obviously meant only all the ones in the books :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Goodness, there are a lot more books than I knew about. I only have the first two.

[hjalfi.livejournal.com]

Did the original (1970s) TV show have the multi-racial ones, or just the new (1990s) one? I have a faint memory of there being a vaguely yellow one in the original, although I can't remember his name, but I'm pretty sure that the knitted brown one was only in the new one.

Incidentally, Elizabeth Beresford did write other stuff, and it's pretty good (although so mired in the 70s it feels rather alien to modern eyes).

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap#A_Leap_for_Lisa_.5B4.22.5D

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I have appreciated my sysadmin even though he is IN FRANCE WITHOUT ME. On the other hand neither have I wished my mother happy birthday even though it is in fact her birthday. Oh shit I am in trouble. On the other hand I was being interviewed by the dude who can fix CERN.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

!English error: use of term 'neither' incorrect.