JINGS CRIVVENS! It's A Favourite BROONS Poll!

Now this is a proper poll.

I don't even know who most of them are and I'm Scottish!

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/broonsfamily.jpg

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/broonstripcigars.gif

what the shit

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/broonstripbabysit.gif

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/broons-31-12-1950.gif

It's a strange world, Mr. Que. I only barely know about it.

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/broons-lino-roll.gif

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/broonsstrip-1947book.gif

I think I kind of like Hen

you can think of it as a scottish snuffy smith

someone has some explaining to do, or fess up to putting drugs in my coffee. i don't think i can handle googling "The Broons" right now.

you can think of it as a scottish snuffy smith

-- Tracer Hand, Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:24 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

okay, that's better i can dig that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broons

Hen is supposedly a Rangers fan and Joe supports Celtic (In the very early annuals this is the case, but later they change to supporting Rovers , United or City)

Mr Que
http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/

I imagine this thread as Ned not being allowed to say "Heavens"

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/Oor%20Wullie/OW-jings_and_crivvens-full.jpg

http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/Oor%20Wullie/wullie%20fighting%20strip.gif

Help Ma Boab It's Oor Wullie in a colour strip!
http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/Oor%20Wullie/Wullie_In_Colour_Mar92.jpg

Michty Me The Broons in colour!
http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/The%20Broons/Broons_In_Colour_Jun92.jpg

WTF, incest in the Sunday Post?

David Byrne out of Talking Heads used to get the Broons album sent to him each christmas, until the auntie that did this, died.

Which is one thing I have in common w/him.

Maggie wore a swimsuit once, in my formative years.

and?

... it helped him thru puberty, I imagine

haha

Oor Wullie played a big part in my childhood, though I can't for the life of me think why.

the bairn always freaked me out cos she looked like a shrivelled old man in a dress

Because The Broons and Oor Wullie are great! My mum bought the facsimile of the 1st Broons annual that was issued last year. One of the funniest I've ever read.
I remember reading all the 60s annuals my aunt had and I also got some of the early-mid 70s annuals at jumble sales when I was about 8. I'd love to read the ones I haven't though.
x-post

The Bairn is just a younger version of Maw Broon really.

I always wondered what age they all were. in that 1st annual they mention maw and paw's silver wedding. Yet wikipedia says Hen is the eldest at 30!
Considering this is the sunday church of scotland post he can't be!

Oh come on, they sent Hen on a date with his sister. Anything's possible.

I can't believe stet's joke needed explaining. I thought all blokes of a certain age in Scotland had thoughts about Maggie Broon. She was like a Jessica Rabbit for the tattie-scone brigade.

He was joking?

I wonder who will win this. I really have no idea who is most popular. Maybe Granpaw? i went for him.

the Bairn: "I heard a mannie saying he attacked Granpaw! He said he went for him!"
Maw: "Jings, he micht be struck doon dead!"
[ENTIRE FAMILY ZOOM FROM GLEBE STREET TO GRANPAW'S HOOSE]

[GRANPAW IS READING THE PAPER]
[FAMILY RUSH IN]
Granpaw: "Help ma boab!"
[GRANPAW SPITS OUT FALSE TEETH AND TEA]

A'Body: But the Bairn said you were attacked!

[THE BAIRN BLUSHES]

There was a whole annual where that was pretty much the only plot. That, or MAW leaves PAW, JOE AND HEN to do something simple like peel tatties and make tea and CHAOS ENSUES

Just like in real life

without the but and ben, though.

I wonder if anyone still has them

Both my bosses have but n' bens

I voted for Hen because I was always amused by a guy being called hen. I am easily amused.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1355/571102420_bf7f3a0779.jpg?v=0

It's worth searching for The Greens (drawn by Frank Quitely, don't know who wrote it) if it's that sort of thing you're after. Was in the short-lived Scottish Viz-a-like Electric Soup.

No Dudley Watkins, no gd

I remember Electric Soup.

Private Eye has a new strip called "The Broonites" the now. It's fairly funny.

Any chance when the ILX admin post comes along we could have it say "HELP MA BOAB this is the last day of voting" and "MICHTY ME The Results Are In!" ?

Well, I'm Scottish, but no.

Not being from Dundee and so on.

The Broons is as much Glasgow as Dundee though.

Is it? Well, Michty Me is not anything I've ever heard anyone say.

I doubt anyone says it in Dundee either!

That really old strip at the top where the bairn complains they didn't give her a draw of the ciggie cracks me up. You just couldn't publish that nowadays.

I got in trouble for saying "jings" the other night.

I've never heard anyone says jings crivvens , help ma boab or michty me in my life. If I did I wouldn't be able to not burst out laughing.

Anyone remember Naked Video With Gregor Fisher as Maw and Horace was gay?

I cant remember who played the other characters.

The Broons were immortalized in the BBC Scotland comedy sketch show Naked Video. In the sketches, Tony Roper played Paw, Gregor Fisher played Maw, Elaine C Smith played the Bairn, and Jonathan Watson played Joe.

From Wikipedia, third result if you google "Naked Video" Broons. You're welcome.

(googling naked video not advisable at work, probably)

Wonder who played the others.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

It's worth searching for The Greens (drawn by Frank Quitely, don't know who wrote it) if it's that sort of thing you're after. Was in the short-lived Scottish Viz-a-like Electric Soup.

it's even more worth searching for "the mcbroons", the one-off viz strip that landed them in spectacular legal hot water with the v litiguous DC thomson (who would probably try to sue us for reprinting strips here if they found out about it).

the basic plot is EXACTLY AS STET OUTLINED ABOVE, only the bairn goes: "come quickly! granpaw says he's havin' a fight!"/hen et all run around getting bandages, steak to slap over his eye to stop the swelling [1] etc/they turn up at granpaw's to find him on the cludgie and pa says: "och! he told the bairn he was havin' a SHITE!"

[1] has anyone anywhere ever done this outwith DC thomson cartoons?

anyway. i've voted for hen. always got a raw deal, hen.

You forget the plots where hen uses his height to help out. Like painting ceilings and holding things up.

i think that's maybe it. as a tiny wee short-arse, i looked up to him.

Would you want to be mischievous like Granpaw when you're a pensioner?

Aye.

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I plumped (haha, do you see what I did there) for Daphne in the end. After starting out as a vaguely harridan-like Maw-In-Waiting she mellowed to this twee, love-struck perma-spinster.

Granpaw's the best really, he gets the best lines

I always wondered what age they all were. in that 1st annual they mention maw and paw's silver wedding. Yet wikipedia says Hen is the eldest at 30!
Considering this is the sunday church of scotland post he can't be!

I think pfunkboy is suggesting there's no such thing as an orange bastard.

He obv. never saw Hugh Dallas referee a Rangers match then

Hahah gosh.

Is there any chance at all Groening knew about this and based Willie on it?

You're supposed to say "Jings Crivvens" "Michty Me" or "Help Ma Boab"!

Hey Non scots who have never heard of The Broons or Oor Wullie. What do you think of this?

the whole thread or just your last post?

The best thing about the Broons and Oor Wullie is that they repeat the same setups a lot of the time, but that's what makes them great. I'm torn between voting for Granpaw and The Bairn, just because they work a lot better together than apart. Especially when they do that The Bairn misinterprets something Granpaw says, family panics, rushes to Granpaw, Granpaw blushes thing which stet mentioned earlier in the thread.

RJG> The whole thread.

The Broons>Oor Wullie

RJG > The whole thread

Faint praise.

Lol :-)

funnier than the broons has been for some time indeed.

Hey Non scots who have never heard of The Broons or Oor Wullie. What do you think of this?

They're not exactly the audience targeted by the thread title, to be fair.

Yeah but you know loads click on the thread to see what it's about (like Mr Que)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Poor maw got 0 votes. Hurrah for Granpaw though!

Aye, and you think they made it this far (if they did click in the first place)?

GO HEN!

(first person to make a hen fap joke gets pc murdoch's helmet shoved up their erse.)

I have a photo of me taken with (a big cardboard cutout of) PC Murdoch at the Glasgow Garden Festival. I also, as a much younger kid, had a jumper with Oor Wullie on the front of it which my mum knitted me from a pattern in the Sunday Post.

my mam knitted me a dennis the menace jersey (ie a jersey with dennis the menace's face on it), and also a dennis the menace jersey (ie a red-and-black one). somewhere there will be a picture of me in the latter.

I have a photo of me taken with (a big cardboard cutout of) PC Murdoch

a cardboard cutout, eh? this is getting into billy the fish territory.

I had a red'n'black Dennis The Menace jersey too, it's a goth thing, innit? (I had the tights to match, OMG I was Minnie The Minx!)

It was more wood than cardboard, I would think, to withstand both the rigours of a Glasgow "summer" and the attention of several trillion childrens twatting it with footballs.

i can genuinely imagine you in a MtM beret. or stretching it above your head and going "yay"

I can imagine you as Beryl The Peril ;)

who? me or ailsa? :o

i'm more like ... i dunno. hank the shopkeeper from "the three bears".

As long as you're not Walter The Softy (or indeed Horace Broon)

A Glasgow FAP photo, yesterday.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39314000/jpg/_39314619_characters203dcthomson.jpg

(Grimly = Gnasher)

Who is Plug?

Hooray for Granpaw!

Maw is black affronted she got nae votes

Aye, poor old Maw, she'll be up tae high do' ower this poll

I wonder why Horace got mair votes than Daphne,Maw and Joe? I also thought Paw would've been second to Granpaw.

There is an edition of the Sunday Post somewhere with a picture of me next to a cardboard PC Murdoch.

Wish I could find some of those old annuals cheap.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/

I'm afraid the 40s and 50s annuals don't go cheap.

There is an edition of the Sunday Post somewhere with a picture of me next to a cardboard PC Murdoch

That'll be the some cardboard PC Murdoch as me then, except no Sunday Post for me, my photo sadly languishes in a drawer in my mum and dad's house, which isn't quite as exciting as being in the Sunday Post.

(Grimly = Gnasher)

GRR ... hang on ... no, you're right. i should be flattered. i think.

Would you be flattered if someone had said you were Wee Eck?

no.

Soapy Soutar?

Is it The Broons or Oor Wullie annual this year?

The twins should've been seperated into "ane twin" and "the ither twin".

I saw Ashley Jensen playing Oor Wullie at the Pavillion when we were both wee. The weird thing is that I grew up but she stayed the same.

Next poll could be "Which Twin Is Eck?"

Maw is my mother's favourite character not surprisingly. She probaly admired her skills with a tattie peeler.

I'd have voted for Daphne but I must've been on holiday when this poll came out. Scunnered.

Ir ye black affronted?

Beetroot.

and its The Broons annual out this year.
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51UfOJdMdDL._SS500_.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7067369.stm

Comic diet carries health warning
A cookbook featuring Maw Broon's favourite dishes has been criticised by health experts.

The collection includes recipes for the fried, fatty and sugary foods which have sustained the comic strip family for 70 years.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44205000/jpg/_44205250_mawbroon203.jpg

It has reached number two in the Scottish best-seller list, outselling books by celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson.

Nutritionists have warned that the Broons' diet could lead to obesity.

Maw's breakfast recipe includes fried eggs, scones, potato bread, lorne sausage and black pudding.

She recommends it is followed by a cup of tea with three sugars or a can of lager.

Another recipe is Maw's bacon-and-egg pie which includes half a pound of bacon, three eggs and almost a pound and a half of cheese.

Other selections include traditional Scottish favourites like clootie dumpling, tablet and macaroon bars.

Nutritionist Carina Norris told BBC Scotland: "Taken as they are, all these things like fried and sugar-laden food, are very bad food and there's no way I could recommend them as a nutritionist.

"Clootie dumpling is high in sugar and although it's natural sugar, it really bumps up the calorie count and there's a lot of fat in there as well, so if you eat that very often, you could well end up being obese.

"If you eat stovies too often, it's part of this stodgy, stereotypical old-fashioned Scottish diet, which is fine in moderation, but if it's part of a regular diet as is promoted in the book, that could be a bad move."

Unhealthy diet

Ms Norris suggested using olive oil instead of beef dripping to make healthier stovies, but added that the book should not be taken too seriously.

She said: "I think if someone followed the recipes in this book, solely, it would be a very unhealthy diet, but I don't think that's what this book's about.

"I think it's more a bit of fun and will end up being given as a gift book, maybe as a bit of a joke to people who their friends think their diet needs to be smartened up a bit."

Maw Broon's Cookbook, published by Waverley Books, is described as a collection of recipes first made for her by her mother-in-law when Maw married Paw.

It has been added to over the years with recipes for every day and special days, from friends and neighbours, and others that simply caught Maw's eye.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518kpb1ZjlL._SS500_.jpg

I have just ordered a copy.

I am just away to order mine.

help ma boab

I must admit, I'm mostly curious to see how the recipes inside differ from my own. Which are in books that look a bit like this does, based on the scans I've seen.

I have never ate stovies. Oor Wullie eats a lot of stovies.

I must admit, I'm mostly curious to see how the recipes inside differ from my own.

Yeah, I'm with aldo on this. I do a lot of the stuff mentioned here, and imagine this could be pretty much a written-down version of stuff my mum taught me that she learned from her mum, etc.

Stovies are great, but have a tendency to look like a plate of sick, which is not so great if you value the aesthetics of your food (I don't, as a rule).

I have honed my stovies to the point where I think they're just the way I want them, and I can cook them while UTTERLY PISHED. Bargain.

Haha, I have read the stovies page: "That Mrs Gow puts sausages in hers but I dinna like that."

books that look a bit like this does, based on the scans I've seen.

Are you implying that Maw Broon stole her recipes?

It says in the blurb that she has, that some people have given her recipes etc. The book was started by Paw's Maw for them getting married. It's got fake sellotaped in things out of magazines and stuff. Some scans here.

I wonder how many maws in scotland will get this at xmas

Why not start a poll to find out?

You could webmail the Twisted Pollstarter and ask him.

I heard he retired.

Nutritionists have warned that the Broons' diet could lead to obesity

read it and weep, folks. read it and fucking weep.

anyway, back in the real world ... haud on, is maw really advocating lager for breakfast? hardcore!

Naw, Hen does. His instructions are "cook and eat".

Lager'n'fry-up breakfast fucking rules (that is my breakfast, most weekends, tbh)

xpost - see Hen's nowhere NEAR obese! It's all LIES!

On the other hand, he is 8'4".

and a rangers fan

How old is Granpaw? about 150 now? The Bairn is a pensioner too.

Of course he's a Rangers fan, he's from Dundee xp

Joe is from Dundee and supports Celtic.

Could be worse, he could be from Hamilton and support Liverpool.

I support Hamilton actually (and Liverpool)

yeah, that bit in brackets kind of weakens your argument a bit.

Famous past ILX bits in brackets

I have never had a gay experience (except for that time I wanked that guy off)
This story proves it's FAKE (except for the fact that the story isn't actually true)
Just a bit of fun, etc (except I'm trying to turn a profit from it)
I am not Calum (except I am)

You forgot:

I shouldn't post about things if I don't know the whole story (unless it suits me to do so)

http://en.RONGopedia.org/

Also

WE ARE NOT GOING TO MONO (except we are)

:-)

(to both of you)

Haha

Results 1 - 1 of 1 for rongopedia

yo, googlewhack, I await my visit from Dave Gorman.

yo, googlewhack, I await my visit from Dave Gorman (except I'll make sure I'm not in)

Hands up who got the Annual.

I did but not read it yet.

or the oor wullie/broons 1946-56 book

what the hell

I haven't read a Broons or Oor Wullie annual since I re-read one from the 80s that I found in my attic earlier in the year that I bought second-hand in the mid 90s and must admit to being unaware that they still produced them with any regularity.

Although I still have an abiding love for them despite their awfulness. I also love the crap comic of my other country - Chile - Condorito.

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/cond/2007/cond071227.gif

Translation: First panel - "Help Condorito, I'm sinking, I don't know how to swim." "Don't give-up, Ungenio."
Second panel - "Do like the little dogs do."
Third panel - "Woof, woof!"

And that's not even a particularly bad one.

Every strip ends with someone fainting with a "plop" or with someone saying "exijo una explicación" (I demand an explanation).

The Broons annual comes out one year and Oor Wullie the next.

what the hell

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 December 2007 03:02

No, It's Help Ma Boab

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7180672.stm

Who is getting an annual for Christmas?

Ailsa do you still have lager 'n' fry-up breakfasts at the weekend?

Sometimes, aye. Why?

just wondering

Ok then...

Maw Broon's two tablet recipes aren't as good as mine, btw.

Not had tablet in years.

Still got all your own teeth then

lol

still never had stovies either.

I did see Tesco selling Stovies and I have to say it looks vile.

and the packets usually look a lot better than in actual form so i dread to think how minging it looks.

Stovies are great. Make yr own, Tesco dreck can't possibly compete.

I'm not sure I fancy trying it tbh

It's basically stew and tatties (or mince and tatties, or sausage and tatties) with EXTRA LARD - what's not to like?

I saw deluxe reprints of the first Broons Book and the first Oor Wullie Book in the book shop yesterday and felt a bit annoyed that no-one is ever going to buy them for me.

I wish I'd brought my Broons cookbook over here with me.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XzppvzK3EWs/TX30ot-vdYI/AAAAAAAAA5Y/vrlIKbCgWfA/s1600/image0-39.jpg

Here is THE BROONS strip that was "banned" and never saw print
until its appearance in THE SUNDAY POST, March 13th, 2011.
(Yesterday.)

It's thought that it was vetoed because the word "lover" in the
second panel was considered far too racy for a kids' strip in a family
newspaper in 1936. Morris Heggie, comics expert and current writer
of THE BROONS and OOR WULLIE, thinks that not only is it one
of the earliest Broons strips in existence, but may even be the first
one that artist DUDLEY D. WATKINS ever drew - the "pilot"
episode, in effect.