Lucky Star wrote:
Lets form a "Golly Liberation Front".
Can anyone think of an organisation the letters G O L L Y could stand for, one of the 'L's could be Liberation.
Nigel, I found the article you posted very interesting. I thought the idea of pinning a Golly badge on for every Arab killed was quite appalling. I must be quite unobservant though, I'm familar with the Ten Little N........ rhyme but never associated it with killing black people though. I thought it was just a nursery rhyme to help children learn how to count backwards, in a similar way to 'There were 10 in the Bed'.
I do wish though that critics of Enid Blyton wouldn't focus on the negative Gollys featured in her books, I've read the 3 Golliwogs, and most of the stories could be about 3 people of any type, in fact it's been reissued as the 3 Pixies or something similar. Also, although there was a Golly who stole Noddy's car, wasn't Mr. Golly the local car mechanic - surely a skilled and highly useful member of the local community? I seem to recall that the Golly in the Amelia Jane books was also portrayed as brave.
