He's 'Amster

[colfish]

To settle the argument of the weekend in my favour, I can confirm that Penfold from Dangermouse was indeed a hamster. Of species HAMSTERUS COWARDISSIMUS TERIFFICATUS.

http://www.nyanko.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/chamb/dangermousechars.html

Comments

[oldnick1971]

He's a mole, goddammit!
Nicky thinks so, Hatchet thinks so, I think so and he wears glasses. Could you find proof more empirical? Well, possibly. But he's still a mole (to me). End of.

[nevboo]

Hamster, after all a mole would be bigger than DM and that is clearly not true!

[oldnick1971]

Um.
Its not to scale?
I feel I should bow to such indefatigable logic and a superior knowledge of hamsters/gerbils/moles etc but I cannot have one of my childhood beliefs refuted and destroyed like this. Next you'll be trying to tell me that Santa and the Easter Bunny aren't real. Please don't go there.

[colfish]

Hang on! You've changed your tune. You said it was an ica-something or other on Saturday. (What was it again?)

[oldnick1971]

Nah - that was Colonel K or whatever the old duffer's name is. Looked at that website (your "proof" - all lies, damned lies) and he's not a walrus as initially suggested. Then thought he might be a beaver (no sniggering at the back) and finally that he could be a coypu - which is indiginous to South America and Colonel K comes from Malaysia. However, in a world where a mouse is bigger than a mole I suppose it is feasible that Colonel K is a coypu. Maybe.