BOSCO - Boy or Girl? You Decide!!

Firewalkwithme

Well I've never been quite sure about our little squeeky voiced puppet friend with a hand up his/her behind so I thought, why not ask the boards.ie population to decide just what sex (or lack of), the legendary puppet actually is.

So, consider this like a referendum. When the masses have spoken, Bosco will officially have a sex (or not) and will then be able to pursue intimate relationships with other puppets such as Sooty, Madaline the Rag Doll from Bagpuss or even Mr Hat (if that's what floats his boat).

Wishbone Ash

Bosco - it's a boy's name!

Firewalkwithme

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Bosco - it's a boy's name!

Yeah I thought about that but I think the name is derived from the Irish word for box 'bosca'. Given that Bosco lives in a bosca I'd need more evidence to be sure - hence the poll

tbh

Bosco is a boy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7fyxebxOqQ&search=bosco

That link doesn't prove it, it's just nice to watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1je3kWFUU&search=BOSCO

monkeyfudge

Cartoon_Head wrote:

Yeah I thought about that but I think the name is derived from the Irish word for box 'bosca'. Given that Bosco lives in a bosca

Or given that she 'has a box'

Vegeta

well bosco is probably void of any genitailia(sp?)

So was it a man or a woman who did the voice for it

Setun

Hermaphrodite tbh.

Firewalkwithme

monkeyfudge wrote:

Or given that she 'has a box'

LOL

monkeyfudge

Vegeta wrote:

well bosco is probably void of any genitailia(sp?)

So was it a man or a woman who did the voice for it

But it could be a woman doing the voice and be a mans hand operating it... so where does that leave you?

tbh

monkeyfudge wrote:

But it could be a woman doing the voice and be a mans hand operating it... so where does that leave you?

reminds me of a party I went to once where this girl had a.......hmmm.

I've said too much.

Plug

Never gave the option of a she male.

Vegeta

monkeyfudge wrote:

But it could be a woman doing the voice and be a mans hand operating it... so where does that leave you?

well maybe if it was a woman doing the voice, she would be bosco's soul and persona. The man with his hand up bosco's ass keeps him in a box, bosco is just a slave to this man

Come to think of it Bosco lived in a box. He is a role model for homeless people everywhere

Degsy

Bosco was a boy,was referred to teh odd time as such.he was voiced by Paula Lambert,Eugene Lambert the pupeter's daughter.Eugene was O'brien in wanderly wagon and had a puppet theatre in monkstown..dunno if its still there.

r3nu4l

http://lambertpuppettheatre.com/lambert/history/index.htm

Bosco was always voiced by a woman, either Miriam Lambert or later her sister Paula.

I note that even on the website, Bosco is devoid of a sex!

This has been debated before on boards: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=259319

xzanti

I'v always thought it was a boy tbh...

Santa Claus

My mates stepdad used to work in RTE and his claim to fame is that he did the outside shoots for the Magic door section of Bosco (which was practically always Dublin zoo anyway).

Anyway he always maintained that Bosco was deliberately androgynous so that he would appeal to both boys and girls !

As someone said, Eugene Lamberts daughters did the voice and operated it, so it had a womans voice and a womans hand up it's backside (hang on a minute...a girls voice and had a girls hand up his backside.....OMG David beckham must be related to Bosco :eek: ).
There were about 4 or 5 boscos (including the one kidnapped by UCD students) and there's still one in the Lamert puppet theatre.

For me, bosco was always a boy but my sister was sure he was a girl which lead to many fights between us over it's sex until my mother settled the dispute by telling us that Bosco was an alien !

For me the real mystery of Bosco was how come Miriam was always pregnant...I later found out that they only produced 50 odd episodes a year and the show was on everyday so there was a lot of re-runs of previous years shows each week hence Miriam appeared to continiously be up the duff !

Mossy Monk

Atari Jaguar clearly

biko

monkeyfudge wrote:

But it could be a woman doing the voice and be a mans hand operating it...

Are we talking about driving cars?

getting my coat

Ruu_Old

Mossy Monk wrote:

Atari Jaguar clearly

Agreed.

Plug

Mossy Monk wrote:

Atari Jaguar clearly

What does this mean, 1000 odd posts and still don't know the meaning?

biko

Plug wrote:

What does this mean, 1000 odd posts and still don't know the meaning?

"Neither"

Bard

Bosco was an eternally 5-year-old boy. My aunt used to work as a co-presenter on the show and the fact that he was a boy was actually mentioned a number of times during various programmes, if I recall correctly.

Also: http://www.bifsniff.com/funny-cartoons/2006/05/bosco-flaherty-vs-faherty-update.html

Plug wrote:

What does this mean, 1000 odd posts and still don't know the meaning?

http://www.boards.ie/wiki/index.php/Atari_Jaguar

Santa Claus

Bard wrote:

My aunt used to work as a co-presenter on the show

Was your aunt the eterally pregnant Miriam ??

Bard

Santa Claus wrote:

Was your aunt the eterally pregnant Miriam ??

No, she was the eternally pink shell-suit wearing 'Bairbre'.

(and yes, I've spelled her name correctly)

Saruman

Is the Q about the puppet or the person with the hand up the puppets arse? Because the latter is a woman... i have seen her.

simu

Boy. Duh!

ThrownAway

It's a bbbboooooyyyyy