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>And although I really really looked I could not find any explanation of the name. blue pe·ter (blû pç'tər) n. Nautical. A blue flag with a white square in the center, flown to signal that a ship is ready to sail (courtesy of Atomica) The programme's logo is a ship in a bottle and the music is the hornpipe. It was the main BBC children's magazine programme for many years and has a very loyal following. It was famous for the things it made, using "sticky back plastic" they never used the tradename "Sellotape" and old breakfast cereal packets Here is a rather typical spoof: http://www.ashtons.demon.co.uk/c1/blue/blue.html
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jmh ... Thank you. Got the full story with music! The theme from "Star Wars."
I can see why it's a hit. I imagine parents enjoy it even more than the children.
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I know I've led a sheltered life (and no doubt the language has changed since I was cryogenically frozen), but what is rude about Blue Peter?
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>I know I've led a sheltered life So have I, Mr Bingley. Apparently on the other side of the pond to where I am now, the name "Peter" is akin to a common abbreviation for William. When something goes blue, it implies that the temperature has dropped and can alert one to a problem (unless in controlled conditions, as you are aware). Biddy Baxter may never recover. [  to WOW for "filling me in" emoticon, to save Jackie's  ]
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Careful folks! We be sailing in waters dangerously close to Cap'n Pugwash again. Perhaps this line of inquiry should peter out. Blue Kiwi
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Peter in, climax. Peter out.
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Fiberbabe remonstrates: What the world really needs is a better-developed sense of shame for punchlines like that.
AnnaS solemnly nods her head in agreement.
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"the name "Peter" is akin to a common abbreviation for William"
Please elucidate. What scurrility has been directed at "William" without my knowledge? I have a dirty mind (or so I've been told), but it is unequal to the task of discerning anything risible in the juncture of this pair of names.
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I never said it was good... I said it was genuine
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Dear Marianna: My father would not have caraway seed bread in the house. I did not dare ask if he had eaten some bread that had mouse droppings mixed with the seed.
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