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Did you know I once punched a womble, when I was a kid??
True story!
so there I was at this summer country fair in the 1970's.
And low and behold the wombles were there play thier songs and being thoroughly entertaining but something wasn't right, I could smell a rat!
For those not in the know "Orinoko" was my favorite womble a totally laid back womble if there ever was one!
But wait, what is this, Orinoko's hat had corks on bits of string hanging off his hat, that wasn't right....was it?
Once the wombles had finished their songs, us kido's were allowed to meet the wombles and say hello!
This was amazing, I was about to meet the wombles,so I went straight up to Orinoko and said "hello Orinoko"!
To my surprise he spoke to me in an Ozzie accent, this wasn't right..was it?
He then told me he was Orinoko's Australin cousin, this did not sit well with me, here I was meeting my childhood hero's and just as I was gonna meet my favorite womble, some Ozzie bastard pulled the rug out from under my childhood and then ground my dreams into the ground with his stupid tomfoolery!
Lets just say I wasn't impressed, in fact I was totally pissed off, and that's when my "Will Smith/Chris Rock" moment took place and I punched him in his well padded tummy, shouting "your not Orinoko!!!!
Suddenly before I knew it, it was home time as my farther quick took action, before I went any further!
So the moral of the story is , don't hire Ozzies to play British children's TV characters, or you might just get thumped, whilst at the same time ruining a child's ambition to meet his hero!
I have since met the real Orinoko and he was just as much of a twat but how was I to know aged 7?
They do say never meet your hero's and that I can completely agree with!
Wellington on the other hand, looks like a twat but you couldn't meet a nicer womble, go figure!
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