David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put his
pen down for the last time.

Not a bad run, he was 89.
--
Tciao for Now!

John.

In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
<johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>his pen down for the last time.
>
>Not a bad run, he was 89.

It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
There were loads of gems like that.

Brian
--
Brian Howie

That was and is part of the beauty of it. After the kids had read it,
the parents could read it and get a whole new set of jokes.

Basically, like any other good kids humour. There are bits in Disney and
Pixar kids movies that I'm surprised got through the censoring process.

On 20/01/2023 09:35, brian wrote:
> In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
> <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>> David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>> his pen down for the last time.
>>
>> Not a bad run, he was 89.
>
> It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
> homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
> There were loads of gems like that.
>
> Brian

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

On 20/01/2023 09:35, brian wrote:
> In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
> <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>> David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>> his pen down for the last time.
>>
>> Not a bad run, he was 89.
>
> It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
> homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
> There were loads of gems like that.

I used to use Constanseau's French-English English-French dictionary
when I were an apprentice and it was useful in that it quoted the
looked-up word in a context. I'd cull whole phrases and sentences and
use them in my French essays. On one occasion the teacher wrote at the
bottom: I prithee tell me where thou obtainest the archaic phrases!

Fair's fair, it wasn't much more than 50 years out of date, the book
being pulished IIRC in 1899, and I writ them essays mid-1950s innit

--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:19:54 +0000
RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:

> On 20/01/2023 09:35, brian wrote:
> > In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
> > <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
> >> David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
> >> his pen down for the last time.
> >>
> >> Not a bad run, he was 89.
> >
> > It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
> > homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
> > There were loads of gems like that.
>
> I used to use Constanseau's French-English English-French dictionary
> when I were an apprentice and it was useful in that it quoted the
> looked-up word in a context. I'd cull whole phrases and sentences and
> use them in my French essays. On one occasion the teacher wrote at the
> bottom: I prithee tell me where thou obtainest the archaic phrases!
>

Yaroosh! Getoff me you bounders!

> Fair's fair, it wasn't much more than 50 years out of date, the book
> being pulished IIRC in 1899, and I writ them essays mid-1950s innit
>
> --
> Rusty Hinge
> To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

brian said:
> In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
><johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>>David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>>his pen down for the last time.
>>
>>Not a bad run, he was 89.
>
> It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
> homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
> There were loads of gems like that.

Note to self: Ask milkman if she's read War and Peace.

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

RustyHinge said:
> On 20/01/2023 09:35, brian wrote:
>> In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
>> <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>>> David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>>> his pen down for the last time.
>>>
>>> Not a bad run, he was 89.
>>
>> It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
>> homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
>> There were loads of gems like that.
>
> I used to use Constanseau's French-English English-French dictionary
> when I were an apprentice and it was useful in that it quoted the
> looked-up word in a context. I'd cull whole phrases and sentences and
> use them in my French essays. On one occasion the teacher wrote at the
> bottom: I prithee tell me where thou obtainest the archaic phrases!

*applause*

> Fair's fair, it wasn't much more than 50 years out of date, the book
> being pulished IIRC in 1899, and I writ them essays mid-1950s innit

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On 2023-01-20, RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
> On 20/01/2023 09:35, brian wrote:
>> In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
>> <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>>> David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>>> his pen down for the last time.
>>>
>>> Not a bad run, he was 89.
>>
>> It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
>> homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
>> There were loads of gems like that.
>
> I used to use Constanseau's French-English English-French dictionary
> when I were an apprentice and it was useful in that it quoted the
> looked-up word in a context. I'd cull whole phrases and sentences and
> use them in my French essays. On one occasion the teacher wrote at the
> bottom: I prithee tell me where thou obtainest the archaic phrases!
>
> Fair's fair, it wasn't much more than 50 years out of date, the book
> being pulished IIRC in 1899, and I writ them essays mid-1950s innit
>
English as it is spoken. A classic.

--
greymausg@mail.com

Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the stench of an Influencer.
Where is our money gone, Dude?

Kerr-Mudd, John said:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:19:54 +0000
> RustyHinge <rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 20/01/2023 09:35, brian wrote:
>> > In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
>> > <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>> >> David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>> >> his pen down for the last time.
>> >>
>> >> Not a bad run, he was 89.
>> >
>> > It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
>> > homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
>> > There were loads of gems like that.
>>
>> I used to use Constanseau's French-English English-French dictionary
>> when I were an apprentice and it was useful in that it quoted the
>> looked-up word in a context. I'd cull whole phrases and sentences and
>> use them in my French essays. On one occasion the teacher wrote at the
>> bottom: I prithee tell me where thou obtainest the archaic phrases!
>>
>
> Yaroosh! Getoff me you bounders!

Quite. So much of what was there for kids to read in the 40s/50s/?early60s?
had fuckall connection with our experience.

>> Fair's fair, it wasn't much more than 50 years out of date, the book
>> being pulished IIRC in 1899, and I writ them essays mid-1950s innit
>>
>> --
>> Rusty Hinge
>> To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.
>
>

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

In article <tqe9r4$23kcp$2@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
<richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 14:52:20 awoke
Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>brian said:
>> In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
>><johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>>>David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>>>his pen down for the last time.
>>>
>>>Not a bad run, he was 89.
>>
>> It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
>> homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
>> There were loads of gems like that.
>
>Note to self: Ask milkman if she's read War and Peace.
>
SWMBO is addicted to Quiz programmes (Chase, Tipping Point... and so on,
but not Mastermind, University Challenge, Only Connect). In one Quiz
programme I heard a contestant answer that "War and Peace" was about
World War 2.

--
0sterc@tcher -

"Où sont les neiges d'antan?"

Nicholas D. Richards said:
> In article <tqe9r4$23kcp$2@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
><richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 14:52:20 awoke
> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>brian said:
>>> In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
>>><johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>>>>David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>>>>his pen down for the last time.
>>>>
>>>>Not a bad run, he was 89.
>>>
>>> It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
>>> homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
>>> There were loads of gems like that.
>>
>>Note to self: Ask milkman if she's read War and Peace.
>>
> SWMBO is addicted to Quiz programmes (Chase, Tipping Point... and so on,
> but not Mastermind, University Challenge, Only Connect). In one Quiz
> programme I heard a contestant answer that "War and Peace" was about
> World War 2.

"Not a lot of people know that"

--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On 2023-01-20, Nicholas D. Richards <nicholas@salmiron.com> wrote:
> In article <tqe9r4$23kcp$2@dont-email.me>, Richard Robinson
><richard@qualmograph.org.uk> on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 at 14:52:20 awoke
> Nicholas from his slumbers and wrote
>>brian said:
>>> In message <k2tu1dF8e25U1@mid.individual.net>, John Williamson
>>><johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> writes
>>>>David Sutherland, who created and drew the Bash Street Kids, has put
>>>>his pen down for the last time.
>>>>
>>>>Not a bad run, he was 89.
>>>
>>> It was wasted on kids. One strip had Cutbert Cringeworthy remarking his
>>> homework essay made "War and Peace" look like a note to the milkman.
>>> There were loads of gems like that.
>>
>>Note to self: Ask milkman if she's read War and Peace.
>>
> SWMBO is addicted to Quiz programmes (Chase, Tipping Point... and so on,
> but not Mastermind, University Challenge, Only Connect). In one Quiz
> programme I heard a contestant answer that "War and Peace" was about
> World War 2.
>

Perhaps it is.

I used attend pub quizzes, and found that it was helpful(!) to question
the answers. Finally the quizmasters started stating at the start that
the definitive answer could not be questioned.

At one quiz we were disallowed for something and retreated to the bar,
until someone came out to tell us that my answer was correct and we had
won the quiz. We had to remain in the pub until one sobered up enough to
drive us home.

--
greymausg@mail.com

Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the stench of an Influencer.
Where is our money gone, Dude?