Talk:Oor Wullie

message: Possibly rename 'Fat Bob' to 'Fat Boab' (anglified to Fat Bob)? Isn't this the name used in earlier Oor Wullie books?
: I always thought it was Fat Bob and 'Help ma boab!' Icecradle 14:55, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Likewise. Although there are quite a few print references to "Fat Boab" (e.g. ), the handful of online examples of the strip I can find call him Bob, even prior to the anglified versions. Here's an example:  (That's terrible! Fat Bob smoking at his age! I'm sure you wid never dae that! ... But Paw. I wis only tryin' ta stop Fat Bob smokin'!). Tearlach 16:11, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The most recent annual refers to him as Fat Bob a few times, as well as other names such as Obese Robert and Skinny Rab. No sign of Fat Boab I can see. Stx 19:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to follow up on this after the Happy Birthday Wullie special of last night; the publishers refer to him as Fat Bob a few times, but the commentors refer to him as Fat Boab, so I'd put it down to common misconception.Stx 09:20, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, gone in and changed things without paying attention. His name was certainly Boab in my childhood. However, I haven't read the strip in a loooong time, so perhaps he's been Anglicised a little, unlike his namesake Robert Charles Nesbitt. Preacherdoc 23:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It certainly was "Fat Bob" (though in a Dundee accent this sounds like "Fat Boab")
It was "fat boab" when I was growing up......and I remember when it changed to just "fat bob"...It was around the 80s sometime.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.240.95 (talk) 15:49, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

text: I don't remember it ever being Fat Boab. I've just opened up the earliest annual I have (the 1966 one) and in the stories I've quickly looked at he's always called Bob. Tallscreen (talk) 01:05, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
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message: Auchenshoogle is controversial... 
It's true that recent writers have been using that name but they used to keep the town anonymous. In actual fact they only ever mentioned town names when they had a visitor coming, like "Auntie Morag from Auchenfechel" or whatever. 
In some stories we see Wullie or the Broons visiting Edinburgh or Glasgow, so we know that neither of those can be their home town. 
Natives of Dundee would argue that Dundee is the actual setting - particularly since DC Thomson is a Dundonian company. There are clues, for example "Whinny Brae" (a big hilly street where the characters regularly race their carties) is a real hilly street in Dundee. The biggest clue I saw was in a quite recent Oor Wullie book, where the number 33 bus to Fintry appeared in a story. If 'Auchenshoogle' had a suburb called Fintry (like Dundee) which was served by the number 33 bus (like Dundee) it would be a pretty major coincidence :-)  --Adambisset 00:23, 12 Oct 2004
:Since the location of Oor Wullie is disputed, I've removed the reference to Auchenshoogle; put it back if you want. I was reading a 1971 annual yesterday, and found a reference to a town named 'Auchtogle' which is, according to Wullie, "three miles" away. I've certaintly found no reference to 'Auchenshoogle' - the town has always been anonymous to me - but that's probably because I consider the recent strips to be UTTER RUBBISH. D. D. Watkins forever!  --AdamM 20:44, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call on both counts Adam. My Dundonian rantings are partisan of course, but actually giving away the name of the town away would be like giving away Maw and Paw Broons' first names. Did you know, though, that they actually gave away Soapy Soutar's real first name a few years back? Apparantly it's Francis! (I'll try and dig up the actual annual where they reveal it.) Adambisset 22:54, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Good god! What is wrong with these people? I bet Watkins is spinning in his grave. --AdamM 18:18, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Eurgh: revisionism. In the classic strips, mid-1960s, I also recall that Oor Wullie's town was unnamed. The other place was Auchentogle (see here). Tearlach 00:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, Auchentogle was nearby. I am sure that the town where Wullie and the Broons lived was unnamed on purpose. Where Auchenshoogle came from I know not. -- Derek Ross | Talk 05:58, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

text: The poem at the start of April 25 2010's episode (a particularly fine episode) contains the couplet: "He may be wee, but he's nae fool/ the 'Shoogle champ at keepin' cool" which seems to imply that Wullie is a resident of Auchenshoogle, if we assume that 'Shoogle is an abbreviation of Auchenshoogle, and that only residents of the area would be eligible for the award "'Shoogle champ at keepin' cool". Mahrooq (talk) 09:20, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Auchenshoogle

message: If the article was divided up into more subject areas, would it be less of a stub? because I have seen shorter pages which haven't been stubs.. Eps0n 10:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Stub' nature of the article

message: I seem to recall there was actually a stage musical of Oor Wullie with Pat Doyle (?) in the title role. Does anyone have anymore information? (Trevek (talk) 13:24, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have some articles about the Bryce musical, including coverage of the tour and a review. So I would propose adding an "adaptation" section for that and any others. hadn't heard about a newer version. Justinkrivers (talk) 14:13, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musical

message: The article briefly mentions Ezzy, an early friend of Wullie who seems to have come and gone at lightning-quick speed. There's a drawing of him here. Obviously he was a very broadly-drawn Afro-Caribbean character, although he seems to talk with the same Scottish dialect as the other kids. I'm genuinely curious about him. This article at the Scotsman's website goes out of its way to point out The Broons' modern-day multicultural storylines - was Ezzy an early, well-intentioned stab at diversity, or a crude stereotype? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I seem to recall that episode too. Wasn't there a moment when they asked Wullie's ma if she could tell them apart. She succeeded by looking at their necks, remarking how Jimmy's neck was clean whereas Wullie's never was. I seem to remember there also being an English cousin who, when he asked why Wullie was wearing a skirt, was told the story of Wee Jock, who invented the kilt by wearing a bucket to protect himself against the gamekeeper's gun. (79.190.69.142 (talk) 08:21, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ezzy 

message: If memory serves me, didn't Wullie's cousin Jimmy appear in an episode? As I recall, Jimmy was the spitting image of Wullie except for the clothes. Wullie give Jimmy a spare pair of his dungarees to wear, and both boys get up to mischief playing pranks on people. Can anyone confirm this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.140.67.2 (talk) 06:30, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I seem to recall that episode too. Wasn't there a moment when they asked Wullie's ma if she could tell them apart. She succeeded by looking at their necks, remarking how Jimmy's neck was clean whereas Wullie's never was. I seem to remember there also being an English cousin who, when he asked why Wullie was wearing a skirt, was told the story of Wee Jock, who invented the kilt by wearing a bucket to protect himself against the gamekeeper's gun. (79.190.69.142 (talk) 08:21, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Jimmy

message: * "Comic strip character Oor Wullie is the most popular figure in the Scottish literary canon, according to a new study. Researchers from Edinburgh Napier University spent three years exploring the reading habits of Scots born on or before 1945. They found that the popularity of Oor Wullie, The Broons and other comics produced by Dundee's DC Thomson dwarfed offerings by authors such as Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns. Director of the Scottish Centre for the Book Professor Alistair McCleery, who led the study, said: "Almost all the interviewees we spoke to said Oor Wullie and The Broons was a key part of their reading experience."
Nicholas Christian, Scotland on Sunday, 28 August 2011
--Mais oui! (talk) 11:06, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Jings, Oor Wullie is top Scot in book poll" 

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