Biggles - Air Commodore

[calliope85]

Because *you* demanded it!

Well, no, you didn't. pearbean and childofatlantis could be construed as having demanded the one where Algy or possibly Ginger got menaced by a giant squid or the like while hiding up a tree. (Algy was up the tree, that is. Or possibly Ginger. We couldn't remember. But presumably not the squid.) But I couldn't lay hands on that one immediately

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[childofatlantis]

This is the squid one I remember, anyway. :D I really, really want to know why WE Johns thought giant squid were in the habit of hauling themselves out of the water to attack people hiding on islets...

I'd forgotten the decomposing bodies bit. Eurgh. o.o

[childofatlantis]

And now I feel the need to post this:

[calliope85]

....WANT.

The dog, the skateboard spitfire, *and* the scarf.

[calliope85]

Inquiring minds want to know if WE Johns had a bad experience with an octopus as a young man.

As pearbean points out, 'trouble with an octopus' sounds horrendously like a euphemism. Though so does 'bringing home jelly in your pocket' to her, so we perhaps should take her comments with a pinch of salt.

[crouchinglynx]

Frightened by natives, chased round an island by a giant squid, and stopping just short of becoming a gibbering wreck, you say? Are you sure the author hadn't been reading Lovecraft?

[calliope85]

Oh, don't encourage me. I was talking with a friend only at lunchtime today about the possibilities of Biggles & Co. being on a mission and discovering an island which doesn't appear to be on any of their charts. They land the amphibian and go ashore, but it's not long before Bertie starts complaining that there's something just *not quite Euclidean* about the angles...

I'm reasonably certain that my money would be on a WWI fighter pilot over any number of Nameless Abominations From Beyond The Stars, though.

[pearbean]

Dude, *come on*.
"I'll bring you home some jelly in my pocket?!" That is SO dodgy. All it needs is a waggle of the eyebrows and it becomes utterly filthy! :p

[calliope85]

*waggles eyebrows provocatively*