fattypuffs and thinifers

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sistrah becky just lent dr vick this overlooked (=french) children's classic, which bex and i loved when we were growing up (we did not read it in french clearly)

(two kids go down a tremendous escalator far underground and discover a world where two nations are at war: one nation is thin and tremendously hardworking and only likes narrow sharp things, the other plump and hedonistic and only likes soft round things... the kids bring peace obv)

anyway it is grebt

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I read this too though had forgotten the escalator.

For some reason (got books out of library the same time rather than the thematic similarity) I link it with an Australian book about fantasy creatures living on (I think) a rubbish dump. Some were soft and cuddly, some were snarky.

My pro-fattypuff stance was intellectually dishonest.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

bottersnikes and gumbles!!

(which actually i tht was k-lame)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh yes. I think I was doing Ancient Greece at school at the time I read this, so in my mind thinifers = Sparta and fattypuffs = Athens.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

for some reason i thought f&t was a roal dahl book. Bottersnikes and Gumbles was/is terrific.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 21 November 2002 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

hey mark have you ever thought of writing a childrens book? you might be grebt at it

― bob zemko (bob), Thursday, 21 November 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I link it in my mind with one where everything gets painted with stripey paint.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 21 November 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Archel, you're such an intellectual!

― caitlin, Thursday, 21 November 2002 14:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Compared to most of this board, Caitlin? I hardly think so. Anyway, Fattypuffs and Thinifers was an intellectual book! (It is French after all.) Also, I had a freaky holistic education which encouraged that whole 'Only Connect' way of thinking.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 21 November 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

'go down the shops and buy me a tin of stripey paint'

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, compared to me then.

― caitlin, Thursday, 21 November 2002 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved it.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 22 November 2002 10:52 (twenty-three years ago)

If you ignore the obvious totally sexist gender role implications and all that... YES!!! Best! Book! Evah!

Because, obviously, I was the fattipuff of the family, and my brother was the thinnifer, and where I got sent was much, MUCH better than where he would have got sent, mwah hah hah hah hah.

(Of course, genetics being what it is, I'm now pretty much the same size as when I was 16, and my brother has bulked out like a proper Scotsman, so HAH!)

― kate, Friday, 22 November 2002 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

fifteen years pass...

so pleased there's a thread for this and then shock horror mark s is the author

Patapoufs et Filifers sounds even better than the translation

i think my copy is in the bottom of the wardrobe somewhere. i have a strong yen to dig it out tonight.

― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 11:33 (eight years ago)

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Thinifers are bad and they should feel bad

― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 11:34 (eight years ago)

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