h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Muffin the Mule - the TV Show - A16852746
Author: Smij - U292

It's Muffin's birthday, so I just had to write this...

Fantastic - just the sort of anarchic response Pinniped was hoping for.

Icy

Dear old Muffin, playing the fool..

In one of my journals we had a llama called Muffin, I always wondered about this weird choice of name. Now I finally get the reference
The puppets remind me of those from the 'Augsburger Puppenkiste' http://www.augsburger-puppenkiste.de/01-theater/02-stars/01-urmelundco/index.shtml

which is still popular with small children here.

One typo:

(who was the elder sister or actor John Mills)---> elder sister of...

Is it time for the typos yet?

and she had some up with the idea of having - ..come up...

Gosh we've taken Lil back to her first childhood.

I'm reduced to really crumby nit-picking - "Though regular UK television transmissions didn't commence until 1936 - and even then only in the London region - a few experimental broadcasts were made for some years before."

I think this sentence should start with Although, and with had been made for some years previously.





Isn't that illegal ?

If we're onto typos straight away, that's a good sign

Yep, just typos...

Pavlovian response 'isn't that illegal? yet
-->
Pavlovian response 'isn't that illegal?' yet

tea-time-friendly --> teatime-friendly

But in 1951 - didn't your english teacher tell you never to start a sentence with 'But'?

Alex

Yep, and as this isn't formal English - and it's a pretty common form nowadays - I chose to ignore it.

(Ah, go on, I'll change it.)

Many of the things my English teacher taught me stayed with me. The meaning of the word 'disinterested', for one (I've hardly ever seen it used correctly - people do insist on mistaking it as interchangable for 'uninterested'). Grrr.

You could be angry, or you could just be underwhelmed. I love that word.

I've added a few more details, corrected a couple of errors about dates and added a few links - including one to the stupendous Whirligig archive site.

there must be more links than that surely.

>>and she had some up with the idea of having a puppet<<

..and she had come up with the idea...

Is this all done with, Mr Strange J?

B

Good entry!

I've never seen Muffin, but I saw the model of him that the old guy acted by David Jason made of him on 'Porridge'.

G

I've added a few links - one to the History of the BBC and one on our entry on behavioural theory to explain my use of the word 'Pavlovian'.. I think this is probably done now

I suggest you put space hyphen space before "Annette Mills, singing the theme tune..."

G

Flowerpot is one word. (occurs twice in article)

...made some years before

flobalobalob, Icy

Not on the titles of the show - 'Flower Pot'