# Please put Noddy and Big Ears in context for the thick American. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 29, 2011, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430 "2011-11-29T07:40:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/81 "2011-12-05T14:08:32Z")
I was particularly fond of a very twee series called the Chalet School, about 30 books in the Mallory Towers vein. They were written from 1930s onward and set in a girl’s boarding school in Switzerland. Midnight feasts and avalanches etc. Good clean fun, but probably haven’t aged well either. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/82 "2011-12-05T14:31:06Z")
> [@irishgirl](#): > > I was particularly fond of a very twee series called the Chalet School, about 30 books in the Mallory Towers vein. They were written from 1930s onward and set in a girl’s boarding school in Switzerland. Midnight feasts and avalanches etc. Good clean fun, but probably haven’t aged well either. Yeah, my sister was crazy about those. I had utterly forgotten about them. Haven’t heard about them in probably a couple of decades. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/83 "2011-12-05T17:17:56Z")
> [@Jaguars](#): > > … I had forgotten the way that all her books were plastered with Blyton’s signature on the front, which I read for several years as ‘Guid’ Blyton (Seriously. Try tell me that doesn’t look like a G?) > … Guid Blyton - millions of books, all of them guaranteed\* to not duplicate any other book in content. - There’s a small probability that you will get a duplicate, but the universe will probably fall to heat death before it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/84 "2011-12-05T21:45:46Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > I think Biggles was extremely popular in NZ for some reason… The book importers / wholesalers here have historically had connections with UK rather than US publishers – not to say we don’t / didn’t get US books (although via UK suppliers) – but UK-centric publications would have been more common here at least when I was growing up. (e.g. we got UK comics: Whizzer and Chips, 2000 AD, etc, whereas consecutive issues of US comics could seldom be found and many were Australian published reprints). > [@amanset](#): > > Apart from the terrible, TERRIBLE, 1980s movie when he is brought to the present day by some time travel shenanigans… A Biggles movie you say… no, no such thing… _la la la_ I can’t hear you. 🙂 (Wretched movie). ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/85 "2011-12-06T08:56:35Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > The book importers / wholesalers here have historically had connections with UK rather than US publishers – not to say we don’t / didn’t get US books (although via UK suppliers) – but UK-centric publications would have been more common here at least when I was growing up. (e.g. we got UK comics: Whizzer and Chips, 2000 AD, etc, whereas consecutive issues of US comics could seldom be found and many were Australian published reprints). I’d say that’s it… I mean, I had a whole heap of _Eagle_ annuals and _War Picture Library_ comics when I was growing up in the late 80’s and '90s, but I never saw the regular “Superman”-type comics on sale anywhere then. Oddly enough, you could get the Disney ones fairly easily though, especially the Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge ones, IIRC. > [@](#): > > A Biggles movie you say… no, no such thing… _la la la_ I can’t hear you. 🙂 (Wretched movie). I quite enjoyed it when I was a kid, but yeah, I think it’s well past time that someone _cough_SirPeterJackson_cough_ did a “Proper” Biggles movie, complete with that Boy’s Own Adventure sort of stuff that you don’t see anymore. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/86 "2011-12-06T10:04:59Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > e.g. we got UK comics: Whizzer and Chips, 2000 AD, etc, It’s like you lived my life. ---
**Author:** ![Galwegian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galwegian/32/3426_2.png) [@Galwegian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galwegian)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/87 "2011-12-06T10:23:21Z")
Was **Chips** ever sold separately to **Whizzer**? Or was it just a marketing ploy to make you feel like you were getting two comics for the price of one? I remember it was all bound up and stapled together as a single comic, even though it was sold as two separate titles. I seem to remember there was a certain rivalry between the **Whizzer** characters and the **Chips** characters. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/88 "2011-12-06T10:50:10Z")
I had a joke (What do you get if you feed a cow money? Rich milk.) AND a computer game review (“Citadel” for the BBC Model B and Electron) printed in Eagle. I believe this makes me awesome. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/89 "2011-12-06T11:12:23Z")
> [@Galwegian](#): > > I remember it was all bound up and stapled together as a single comic, even though it was sold as two separate titles. Before my time they were two separate comics, but when they merged they established the rivalry theme, unique to a comics merger. It then went on to merge with both **Krazy** , and then **Whoopee** , but the title only temporarily changed to reflect that. It finally invisibly merged into **Buster** which is defunct these past ten years or so. It is the end of an era. I was always a Whizz-Kid, never a Chip-ite. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/90 "2011-12-06T11:18:25Z")
> [@amanset](#): > > I had a joke (What do you get if you feed a cow money? Rich milk.) AND a computer game review (“Citadel” for the BBC Model B and Electron) printed in Eagle. > > I believe this makes me awesome. I submitted a drawing to 2000AD which got printed. I won an LRD (Liquid Refreshment Dispenser) which I have subsequently lost. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/91 "2011-12-06T11:31:09Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I submitted a drawing to 2000AD which got printed. I won an LRD (Liquid Refreshment Dispenser) which I have subsequently lost. Much as though it pains me, I must admit that you are significantly more awesome than me. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430/92 "2011-12-06T13:30:18Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I submitted a drawing to 2000AD which got printed. I won an LRD (Liquid Refreshment Dispenser) which I have subsequently lost. Zarjaz! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-put-noddy-and-big-ears-in-context-for-the-thick-american/604430.md?page=4)