Our Wullie

[vernon]

I spotted Our Wullie annuals for sale in the local supermarket. I have many happy memories of reading the Our Wullie comic strip in the Sunday Post and the occasional annual.

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Anyone else enjoy Oor Wullie and the related comic strip The Broons?

 

[Corvette chic]

My aunt lived in Blackpool when I was little and her neighbour was from Falkirk so I got to read the Sunday Post and got albums for Christmas for years. She must've influenced me more than I thought as one time on the south pier there was a dancing competition and as the twist was in fashion I decided to do a highland fling, of course with all the Scots down on holiday I was winning but then the judge said no it had to be the twist.... cue much bawling and shouting - always could start a riot! aye happy days

 

[ufkacbln]

Yup!


Funnily enough my Mother and I bought each other the same annual for Christmas last year!

Remember the Broons?

APparently their album is selling well in Scotland and may be the Christmas number 1!

 

[KEEF]

Get the annual every Christmas Broons or oor wullie boyh great!

 

[dav1d]

Aged 14, we moved to Orkney where I went to school on the Mainland (bus, ferry and coach just to get there and back each day!).
One of the other pupil introduced me to Oor Wullie in a summer special comic. I then bought anything with Oor Wullie in
(apart from The Sunday Post, though I do read that occasionally), and got some bargains, like the new "annual"
.(it's only once every two years) at my local market for 10p once.

I try to get them when they've gone down in price after Christmas, but often miss them! I also got into reading The Broons from
a Broons and Oor Wullie book.

 

[ColinJ]

My Scottish mother always had the Sunday Post passed on to her by Scottish neighbours and I used to read it after her.

I was always a bit intrigued by the different words used in Lowland Scots as in the  Oor Wullie cartoon.. Where she comes from (near Oban), they all used to speak Gaelic when she was a girl and when they learned English, it was pretty much as we speak it in England only with a lovely west coast Scottish accent. 

 

[Ste T.]

When I was a youngster my mum and dad used to take the Sunday Post every week. Some of the lines in the cartoon use to intrigue me such as " Jings mc boab" or "Mcriven" both exclamations often used,

A religious column called "Seven days hard with Frances Gaye" ( I must be imagining this, but it seems so real )

And my dads fave a motoring page where people would write in with descriptions and diagrams of incidents they had been involved in, the theme being " who was in the wrong". Each week the resident expert would pass judgement

Happy memories.

 

[rualexander]

...." Jings mc boab" or "Mcriven" both exclamations often used,...

Jings, crivens, and help ma bob!

 

[Ste T.]

I stand corrected. (what is help ma bob?)

That's me of to buy a copy tomorrow. :¬)

 

[dav1d]

"fair drookit" is another that's not too uncommon in the books.

 

[Globalti]

I've heard "fair drookit" somewhere.

My favourites were Giles (see my avatar) and Ogri in Bike magazine.

 

[dav1d]

I've heard "fair drookit" somewhere.

It wasn't in Salford or Manchester was it? Ocassionally, I've said it when I've got soaked!

 

[vernon]

I've heard "fair drookit" somewhere.

My favourites were Giles (see my avatar) and Ogri in Bike magazine.

I'm a big fan of Ogri cartoons.

Sadly there doesn't appear to be any new Ogri cartoons in Bike magazine. There was a spell of them publishing recycled earlier strips but now there's nowt.

I've now ordered myself an Oor Wullie annual from Amazon and managed to resist buying any of the alternative Our Wullie publications.

 

[dav1d]

There was one issue of The Sunday Post which had a free replica of the first Beano comic (except with 4 pages removed because they were offensive). But it was only in the Scotland issues, so i emailed the editor and they sent me one.

 

[kettle]

I remember his family well - The Pullers. He of course was not the only Wullie Puller that I have known.