Dancingboy writing from London...... A whippet is a small terrier like dog,smaller than a greyhound. Whippet racing used to take place (I don't know if it still does) in the North of England and obviously some people actually bred these types of dogs for pleasure or for racing purposes. Mrs W,in the show, I think is simply trying to tell the family that Billy is good enough to do better things with his life.StevenKing wrote:I vaugly understood that line but even if I didn't I could translate it as" do something low brow with his life" Wayne Sleep and Cindy doll at least work somewhat to a non Brit but Camberwick Green absolutely means nothing and has no context you can grap onto to anyone outside of the UK, I thought they were talking about a sports stadium, lord was I wrong. Personally I think they need to leave in the ALL the minor regionalisms for the flavor and just change the major cultural references that would kill a joke here if said.shimmyshimmy wrote:Raise whippets and grow leeks? Can't say I quite understand the context of that.
Re Camberwick Green, this was a children's TV programme from many years ago. The sort of programme for very young children, which had animated characters with the action taking place in a village called Camberwick Green. An actor called Brian Cant,I think,did the voice-overs.Hope this is useful.
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