OK, but I wouldn't know that, given that I no longer read the comics you are referring to. I would, of course, if I could still have the experience I referred to earlier, that of entering the frames to experience vicariously the fun that the characters were having, and to share it with them. I lost the ability to do so round about the age of nine or ten, but at least I was able to move seamlessly into Adventure, The Hotspur, The Rover and The Wizard, and immerse myself in a similar way in the text accounts of the lives of Alf Tupper, Baldy Hogan, Pickford, Nick Smith, Cannonball Kidd and Wilson. I still do, regularly! Incidentally, I am not convinced that there weren't reference points in the strips in Film Fun and Radio Fun that children at the time didn't get. I won a bound volume of file copies of Radio Fun for 1950 (Jan. to Jun.) in the last Compal auction. When I get a spare moment I will have a look for such reference points, but don't expect too much too soon. Raven knows all too well how good I am at putting things off!!!!!Raven wrote:Yes, but we're talking mostly about situations where getting the gags *depends* on getting the references, Phoenix, like the Fawlty Towers example; humour often depends on shared reference points. How was lunch?
The lunch was fine by the way, cheese and salad on a 12'' Italian. No jokes, please.
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..also Desperate Dan..
