This will make no sense if you don't know what a Womble is.

[andrewducker]

Andy: I once went to Wimbledon Common.
Julie: You once went to a Womble con*?
Andy: No - Wimbledon Common. I was a kid, my parents were driving past it, so we stopped and spent an hour looking for Wombles. Did you ever see the Wombles?
Julie: Yes. But they seemed like a public health message from the eighties**.
Andy: You mean like Captain Planet?
Julie: No - Captain Planet was cool, because it had superheroes in it***.
Andy: So the Wombles would have been better with superpowers? But they had awesome adventures!
Julie: All they did was find different rubbish each week and build stuff out of it. They had the power of MacGyver.
Andy: I am so putting this on Livejournal.*****


*This would be awesome though.
**Seventies, actually. But the distant past all looks the same to the youth of today****.
***And apparently a computer game for the Amiga that Julie played to death.
****Apparently now I won't be getting any duvet tonight.
*****Paraphrasing, obviously.
******This note isn't actually attached to anything. I just like the triangle shape the notes are making.

Comments

[matgb]

I used to live ten minutes walk from Wimbledon Common, lovely place to wonder around. Some very nice (if a bit expensive) pubs as well.

they seemed like a public health message from the eighties

She's right though.

[princealbert.livejournal.com]

For my 6th or 7th birthday I saw the Wombles at Leith Town Hall.

Years later at University my mate Steve Jones was touring with Mungo Jerry, along with two other bands from the same era. So when they came to Preston I hauled a bunch of mates down to the Guild Hall (it has other uses than televised snooker) and was amazed when three Wombles invaded the stage at the end of the night.

Turns out the Wombles that toured in the mid 70's were Steeleye Span.

[soon_lee]

Underground, overground, wombling free,
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

My mum lived in Wimbledon when my brother (born 1975) was wee, and they regularly spent their days looking for Wombles.

Wombles rock. Womble con for the win xx

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

The Captain Planet Amiga game was startlingly good given how dire the cartoon was.

Also, I approve of parentless footnotes. It feels like it ought to be possible to write a secret message in them somehow.

[andrewducker]

Dammit. I should have done an acrostic!

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Having just been reading the Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde, this talk of footnotes is making me worry there's an altogether too thin line between reality and fiction*.

* If you haven't read the novels of Jasper Fforde, this comment might make no sense**.

** This can be remedied by reading said novels.

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you're talking about*.

*That was a total lie, but obviously I couldn't admit that in surface-level text. We're safe down here in the Footnoterphone network.

[andrewducker]

Read the first one, didn't really get on with it. I got bored of puns. Which takes quite a bit of work...

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

That game was fab, I had totally forgotten about it. And yes, much better than the cartoon.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

The thing that most worries me about this is realising that there are people who don't know about the Wombles.

[andrewducker]

That would be "young people". As opposed to incredibly old people like yourself.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Working in a school makes me feel old. Very old. I'm not even thirty yet! Aaaiiieeee!

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

It's very scary. Many of the latest intake of students at the uni roleplaying society I belong to had never heard of Labyrith!!

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

Labyrinth even

[cybik.livejournal.com]

*lost for words*

At least they get to be educated in the ways of Bowie and His Tight Trousers.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Wimbledon Common is a long way from me. About the only thing I knew about it as a child was that it was where the Wombles lived.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Oh, and that people dumped lots of rubbish there.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

the power of MacGyver is not to be underestimated!!

[the-locster.livejournal.com]

The Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we? :)