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Fantastic appraisal of The Broons - in many ways they could have been a role model for The Simpsons.

10 Glebe Street is in the fictional town of Auchentoogle or Auchenshoogle not Dundee. I think the town is supossed to be a suburb of Glasgow or Dundee.Penrithguy 20:28, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

There's a Glebe Street in Renfrew, just outside of Glasgow. Given the timing of the early strips, I think it's more likely the street took it's name from the strip. Stx 19:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I remember in a Broons annual back in the 1980s one of the 1st I read that not only was the tenement block numbered 10 Glebe Street but the Broon's flat was number 10 in the block itself though I have never seen this in subsequent editions. Also I know this is nitpicking/over analizing/being sad or whatever you want to call it but the Broon's flat has been on various floors of the tenement block and seems to face both the back and front of the building though to house that many people comfortably it must be quite large. Also has anyone noticed that if Granpaw is not in the story there is quite often a photograph of him on the wall of the Broons home showing him in various expressions usually relevant to the story Penrithguy 20:10, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Nice article - maybe someone who is a better editor than me can add a picture to show the style of drawing and and sample of dialogue? The reference to "Glesgow" is correct - this is how posh people from Morningside (Edinburgh) say "Glasgow". Coincidentally I was recently researching my family tree and discovered that my greatgrandfather was one of 7 children, aged 1-17, living with their 2 parents in a 2-room tenement in Glebe Street in Glasgow (1891). Sadly they lived at no.44 not no.10. Notepicker 01:29, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Coming from Edinburgh, and knowing nothing of Dundee, I always thought the Broons lived in Glasgow, but was puzzled as to why they had a "bairn" rather than a "wean" - maybe there was a deliberate attempt to embrace both sides of the country. NRPanikker 02:35, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

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Regarding Fintry being in Dundee: There is also a Fintry to the NW of Glasgow in the range of hills called the Campsie Fells... Quite a small picturesque place if memory serves correctly (was last there ~15yrs ago), certainly the sort of place for the Broons to go on an outing.... & would certainly fit with the sort of countryside they keep visiting at the But'n'ben... As for the rest of the dundee vs glasgow bit, coming from Clydebank, probably about 15odd miles from Fintry, I say "wean"... not "bairn"... Maybe the use of "fintry" was as a bit of a dig at there being more than one, to further confuse the issue? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.133.7.38 (talk) 13:59, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Joe 2 Eck Twin 3 Images/Storyline 4 Maw Broon's Cookbook

[edit] Joe

Removed reference to Joe Broon being a Celtic supporter. (!!) In fact he, Hen and Paw all supported the fictional "Rovers" (See, for example, 20th story in 2001 edition - ISBN 0-85116-784-5) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.69.240.110 (talk) 03:10, August 20, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eck Twin

Citation definitely needed!! Adambisset 10:05, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

I can verify this - it's in the second collection of Broons and Oor Wullie stories, which covers WW2. In one of the stories, the entire family are arguing about various things. The Twins and Horace have an argument which results in one of the Twin's punching Horace, the other Twin encourages him by saying: "Hit him Eck!!"

I can't remember what page or what date the story is from, but it's definately true. I'll look out my copy and check it.

(Oh, and it's interesting to note that Hen and Joe are arguing about football, as Joe supports Celtic and Hen supports Rangers).

--Gaz C 12:46, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

There is a Glebe Street in Glasgow, it's in the Townhead district, I lived there when I was a wean- there were no bairns, just weans, which proves that it was not based in Glasgow, as does the rich doric language - definitely not Glasgow!

Almost every town in Scotland has a Glebe Street, no doubt that's why the name was chose. The Glebe was the area of land belonging to the church, on which the minister could grow crops or graze some animals to supplement his stipend.80.195.59.72 (talk) 14:26, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images/Storyline

I am an avid Broons & Oor Wullie reader, and have, countless annuals and newspaper cuttings. 1. Can I upload any scanned images of comics for demonstration purposes and would this violate the, eh, rules?

2. Although I can't edit it personally right now, the 'storyline' section of the article is confusing as it is obviously suppost to present a general overview of Broons comics storylines, however it includes lavish descriptions of ONE storyline (the polish Maggie thing) and doesn't have any real structure.

Thanks Eps0n 12:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Re:1, a low resolution - only a few hundred pixels wide, which probably means too small to read the writing - image of a whole comic or one or two cells would probably be okay to demonstrate artistic style, but don't go daft. See Wikipedia:Fair use (particularly the 'policy' section) for all the details, and have a look at the articles on other comics (e.g. Lobey Dosser) to see what they've done. --Scott Wilson 22:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maw Broon's Cookbook

I'm going to add a small section about this to the article when time permits. I don't think it merits an article of its own. It did cause a wee bit of controversy re the unhealthy recipes. Interestingly, it clearly refers to Maw Broon as having the first name "Maggie" in a letter from Paw Broon's mother to her new daughter-in-law. Grievous Angel (talk) 13:20, 28 November 2007 (UTC)