Any older Brit DUers remember the cartoonist 'Giles?'

FlashHarry

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Thu Aug-14-03 06:13 PM
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Any older Brit DUers remember the cartoonist 'Giles?'

I remember seeing a cartoon of his about the petrol rationing in the 70s. It showed a bunch of upper-class public school kids trying to get to school--some in sedan chairs, some on foot. The main kid had his mother behind him, with the caption, 'Left, then right. Beastly Arabs making poor Algy walk to school!'

The mass exodus in Manhattan reminded me of this, as I felt the pain of thousands of pairs of Manolo Blahnik's walking home...

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Pert_UK

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Thu Aug-14-03 07:52 PM
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1. Yeah, I'm with you........

I'm a bit young to remember Giles really, but my dad had a bunch of his compilation annuals - I used to read them all the time. Very funny!

I even remember that precise cartoon - IIRC, little Algy was a fat little bastard?

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FlashHarry

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Thu Aug-14-03 09:48 PM
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3. I'm too young as well. I was 4 in 1973.

We had a bunch of his annuals, too. I loved 'em.

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Lisa

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Thu Aug-14-03 08:16 PM
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2. I've got a whole bunch of his annual compilations

He's popular in parts of Canada as well.

Remember the one where the dad has hung a "sorry, no petrol" sign on the lawnmower ... his wife is telling one of the kids, "hop over to the pub and tell your father bad luck, I've repaired his old hand mower".

And the one where the mother is telling her friends "last time this happened your father had a damned fool idea about getting a horse" -- and guess what he's hiding in the shed?

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T_i_B

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Fri Aug-15-03 05:03 AM
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4. I wasn't born at the time

But a second hand book shop near where I work does stock a lot of Giles annuals. I can remember seeing a few of those things at scout jumble sales in Sheffield too!

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BritishHuman

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Fri Aug-15-03 05:15 AM
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5. I remember him...

It was the most enjoyable part of the Daily Express.

I had a Giles jigsaw - wonder whatever happened to that?

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T_i_B

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Fri Aug-15-03 06:02 AM
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6. Something enjoyable in the Daily Express?

Blimey, that must have been a while ago!

Still, could be the Daily Mail. :eyes:

http://www.dailynail.co.uk/

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BritishHuman

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Fri Aug-15-03 02:04 PM
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7. It was a good twenty years ago

at least.

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