El Reg is so wonderfully entertaining on a Friday.

Pints of Landlord all round!

....RentoKil!

I for one welcome our woollen overlords.

Don't let those toffy English fox hunters in on the existence of that hallowed creature, the Soup Dragon. They might find a good excuse for sending in thousands of fox hounds to rip the poor thing to shreds of cotton.

So named after the popular music band of the 90s. I think.

Great story. I'm going to get pissed with Tom Fun and Derek. "That'll be alot of fun."

They've also bagged Bagpuss, and Ivor the Engine.

As reported in The Grauniad:

"The Coolabi chief executive, Jeremy Banks, said: "This is an exciting acquisition for Coolabi. Bagpuss is a much-loved classic brand and we look forward to applying our proven brand management skills to its reinvigoration and to successfully introducing it to a new generation of children.

"In addition, we have secured some other interesting properties which the Coolabi team will begin work on immediately in order to accelerate their development."

GAH!

Why was the secret of Blue String Soup covered up? With a dustbin lid, no less. ISTR an episode where little humans turned up wearing spacesuits. With hilarious consequences, naturally. Things were fabulous in 1973, kids today have no idea. We only had to work three days a week, you know. Worker's paradise, it was...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/24/weeooo_ooeeeoo_woooeeeooo

Love it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/

You forgot to mention the Clangers knowledge of 'Blue' String Theory.

The soup caves hid an enourmous machine for colliding soup particles at high speed.

The facility was called SERN - Soup Everyday Ready Now.

Mine's the woolen cardigan.

Nicely done.

It's very important to have things like this on El Reg. Without them I wouldn't have just put 2 and 2 together and had the ace idea of starting conversations in Clanger, Soup Dragon and Iron Chicken on internetshout.com. Still waiting for my home Internet connection after the house move though, so the ideas open to takers. If anyone can actually do Froglet, I'd be impressed too.

Go on, you know you want to and it'll give our colonial friends a serious WTF? moment......

It won't be the fox-hunters that go for the Soup Dragon (though they'd have every right, evil bastard that it is). No, it'll be Mr Spoon and the cast of Button Moon who hide a secret hobby of dressing up in red coats and hacking n'er-do-wells to death with kitchen utensils.

Astonishingly, NASA didn't even notice the "anomalies" in their own photography:

http://stuffucanuse.com/fake_moon_landings/moon_landings.htm

Apparently Major clanger expressed himself too forcefuly, and it had to be toned down.

The whisting noises aren't just random whistles. They wrote an actual script with words, then whistled it. And like all other Childrens' prog scripts, it had to pass the censor......

...when I wrote my comment

...and raise you a barrel. Here, here I say. Keep up the good work El Reg.

I know, thicko. I would have thought the chronological ordering was the giveaway.

Jeez do I have to put the JOKE ALERT icon on everything I post?

It wasn't a moon. Not ANY moon.

Anybody who was paying attention knows full well that the Clangers lived on a small, blue PLANET. Our moon (for those who haven't been paying attention) is not blue, and not a planet. It is in fact cheese coloured, as proven beyond any reasonable doubt by Wallace and Gromit (at least pm seems to be awake).

9/10 for the story, 0/10 for successful investigative journalism.

Paris, because we'd all like to see her moon.

Over and out.

Glenn.

As the photo shows, the curvature of the horizon is too high.

Makes you wonder what else NASA isn't telling us.

Apparently, the first words spoken (whistled) on the Clangers were Major Clanger saying "Oh sod it! The bloody thing's stuck again!" He was trying to open a door.

There used to be a www.clangers.com site (now defunct) which said the episodes were scripted in English but then translated into whistles so they sounded like a real language.

"Ummm

By Ed Posted Friday 24th October 2008 14:27 GMT

Like WTF Reg......?

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LOL, it's british thing Ed, what i want to know is what was the name of the first clanger on the earth and what did they say when they steped off their spaceship, was it broadcast all over the moon, and did why did they not return for so long!

i hear the eastern clangers have now got a robotics plan to return to earth and land some automateted robotic dragons to map the earth, but the west the united states of clanger nation dont like that so are now planning to make a north poll terra base soon.

Who would win?

there was part of me , thinking that I watched a kids programme back when I was 4 years old all those years ago... but no it was stuff that NASA had missed !

now I can buy into that , after all they faked the moon landings, and had an imaginary rockets that left cape canaveral, and where thus using there billions of US Budget using early CGI in the early 1970s..

oh bugger I must remember to take the pills the psychiatrist gave me ......he's a very nice man !

I haven't looked at these poor knitware creatures the same since someone pointed out that a Bedfordshire Clanger is a food item. Apparently, in Bedfordshire, they hunt and kill these magnificent aliens.

A full recipe, with "Pork" as an alternative ingredient in these PC times, can be found here:

http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/LeisureAndCulture/HistoryAndHeritage/BedfordshireClanger.aspx

See... they are even proud of their alien hunting ways! Presumably the Soup Dragon was the starter.

Save the clanger...

Keep it up Andrew. Especially if you are annoying people like yeahright who burst into tears when they hear the word "Freetard"

I'll drink to that.