What were The Wombles?

speedboatchase · 24-12-2009 02:44AM #1

So I was wombling in the snow today (no-one saw) when it struck me - what exactly are the Wombles? Rats? Voles? Some kind of rodent? Now I know that Snarf from the Thundercats is a snarf, because he's from a race of Snarfs and helpfully his name is also Snarf - but Wombles?

robbie_998 · 24-12-2009 02:45AM

we'll tell you when you tell us whats that creature in your sig ! :pac:

speedboatchase · 24-12-2009 02:46AM

Werewolf - he has a basketball too. A teen wolf if you will

Senna · 24-12-2009 02:47AM

Men and Women in costumes.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 24-12-2009 02:47AM

Living off crap and surrounded by filth in Wimbledon Common? They were students!

R0ot · 24-12-2009 02:47AM

A kids television show.

kawaii · 24-12-2009 02:58AM

You're a womble! Remember?

OPENROAD · 24-12-2009 02:59AM

Great theme tune from what I can remember.

Thrill · 24-12-2009 03:02AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2mJPSccvo

What a horrible tune.

24-12-2009 03:02AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm3SJ2sh1OA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKQpLA4QL-w

Run_to_da_hills · 24-12-2009 03:09AM

I think these were the predecessor to these fat fcukers.

Atavan-Halen · 24-12-2009 03:11AM

I never really like the wombles.

But to answer OP's question, I've no idea, they're just......wombles.

Jako8 · 24-12-2009 03:12AM

They were wombles...

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24-12-2009 03:18AM

They were created when the writers daughter couldn't say Wimbledon properly!

Run_to_da_hills · 24-12-2009 03:19AM

Jako8 wrote: »

They were wombles...

...

...and they came from Wimbelton.

24-12-2009 03:21AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

...and they came from Wimbelton.

Before moving to Milton Keynes.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-12-2009 03:44AM

They were the biggest sellers in the charts in 1976 - FACT !

Some lad booked the wombles for Dublin on their tour. Sent a limo to Dublin airport to pick them up. Instead of a group there was a just set of costumes and a backing tape

opinion guy · 24-12-2009 04:32AM

What were The Wombles?

The result of some serious drugs methinks like most other kids shows back then....

24-12-2009 04:35AM

Ha! I was wondering the same thing today actually.

Anyway, they are wombles.

indough · 24-12-2009 04:43AM

just wombles

ashyle · 24-12-2009 04:59AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

...and they came from Wimbelton.

Wimbeldon no?
They weren't any real animal.. they were Wombles.

Pdfile · 24-12-2009 06:02AM

they are what happens when you leave nigel thornberry alone in a room with nothing but a badger, a small thing of hand lotion and some marvin gay.

Jev/N · 24-12-2009 06:04AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

...and they came from Wimbelton.

ashyle wrote: »

Wimbeldon no?

Wimbledon

Run_to_da_hills · 24-12-2009 08:02AM

They were also about 30 years ahead of their time. Ie brainwashing kids into Green fascism.

Wiki wrote: »

Their motto is "Make Good Use of Bad Rubbish." This "green" message was a reflection of the ecology movement of the 1970s. Although Wombles live in every country in the world, the stories focus on the life of the burrow in Wimbledon Common in London, England.

brummytom · 24-12-2009 10:44AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

They were also about 30 years ahead of their time. Ie brainwashing kids into Green fascism.

Shame it didn't work too well.

I've heard plenty of stories of young kids walking down by Wimbledom Common, and throwing cans/wrappers on the floor. When asked why, they replied it was to attract the Wombles

:pac:

The_Minister · 24-12-2009 12:24PM

Senna wrote: »

Men and Women in costumes.

I thought they were puppets?

Archeron · 24-12-2009 12:53PM

The bastard offspring of a Minister for health and a Taoiseach.

Beasty · 24-12-2009 12:55PM

The WOMBLES (White Overalls Movement Building Libertarian Effective Struggles) are a loose and nimble anti-capitalist group based in London that once dressed in white overalls with padding and helmets at protests, mimicking the Italian group Tute Bianche.

Seloth · 24-12-2009 12:58PM

I thought Wombles were just...well Wombles!

LiamMc · 30-12-2009 01:57AM

Didn't Enya use the name of one of the characters for one of her songs?

I was with some friends and one of us won a womble toy at Funderland in the late '70's. Furry body but a paper triangular shaped nose. If that's a help to anybody.

citizen_p · 30-12-2009 02:09AM

little boring kids tv characters....

never heard of wombling in the snow...or anyone saying womble or wombling

What were The Wombles?

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