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Offline Mince

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Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« on: March 05, 2007, 11:18:16 PM »
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2007, 12:59:33 AM »
Actually, since recent events over the past few years, that's one of the things you're highly unlikely to see in Beau Peep. After 9/11 the Nomad almost got dropped from the strip.
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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2007, 08:17:07 AM »
Is this because he is always trying to blow up the fort?

You gotta be kidding me.
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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2007, 10:34:36 AM »
Yes, but trying to do it by flying a Fokker into the ramparts?...

Bloody Al Qaeda - gag terrorists.
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2007, 01:36:56 PM »
After the Gulf Wars and 9/11, it became a little insensitve to show an Arabic character running around threatening to "slaughter everyone in the fort". Okay, he's a North African nomad and hopelessly inept at everything he does but it was no longer a comical image. These days, I focus on other areas of The Nomad's lunacy like his book-writing and business ventures.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2007, 01:57:40 PM »
Quote from: Roger Kettle on March 06, 2007, 01:36:56 PM
... and hopelessly inept at everything he does...

He wasn't always a Dundee United player though, was he?
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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2007, 03:09:57 PM »
I'm surprised you did not also get rid of Colonel Escargot, what with Bush still being in power.
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2007, 06:18:07 PM »
Hopelessly inept is what Dundee United players aspire to.
As for the Bush/Escargot comparison----well, some things just can't be satirised.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2007, 06:34:03 PM »
Shall we let them know that the nickname for your beloved Dundee Utd is "the Nomads", Roger?
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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2007, 10:05:20 PM »
"The Arabs", Nige!
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #10 on: March 07, 2007, 12:18:06 AM »
Quote from: Roger Kettle on March 06, 2007, 10:05:20 PM
"The Arabs", Nige!

Oh - I was close! )(I thought it was "The Nomads")
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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2007, 01:53:49 PM »
Why the A rabs
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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2007, 06:18:29 PM »
Something to do with the tons of sand that were spread on the pitch in the early sixties to try and beat the weather conditions.
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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2007, 06:20:04 PM »
Quote from: peter on August 01, 2007, 01:53:49 PM
Why the A rabs
A lot of folk who go to watch them are called Rab, as in Rab C Nesbitt. It's A "Rab's" club. At one of their AGMs they decided to shorten this to A rabs, and it stuck.
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Re: Things you are unlikely to see in Beau Peep
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2007, 06:21:45 PM »
Quote from: Roger Kettle on August 01, 2007, 06:18:29 PM
Something to do with the tons of sand that were spread on the pitch in the early sixties to try and beat the weather conditions.

Or it might have been that! The sand-spreading was so entertaining they had their biggest crowd for years...
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