...Is Archibald, by the which it means the name will be Archie! 😉
Quote from: SAGG on May 09, 2019, 12:54:16 PM...Is Archibald, by the which it means the name will be Archie! 😉
Actually, it's just Archie. It's not short for Archibald.
In related news, the Queen has cancelled the palace's Netflix subscription.
Quote from: Tuxedo Mark on May 09, 2019, 02:02:05 PMQuote from: SAGG on May 09, 2019, 12:54:16 PM...Is Archibald, by the which it means the name will be Archie! 😉
Actually, it's just Archie. It's not short for Archibald.
In related news, the Queen has cancelled the palace's Netflix subscription.
That is interesting. I assumed they'd be formal, so I posted it that way. Incredible. "Archie".... 🤔😌😏
Archie is (or was, at one time) not an uncommon name in England. England had its own long-running (1957-1983) Archie comic character in the form of ROBOT ARCHIE.
(https://i.pinimg.com/474x/aa/b5/ea/aab5eafecc8f98384c4f33afa802a5ae--lion-pictures-comic-covers.jpg)
Additional background info and examples of the Robot Archie comic feature can be found here:
http://the-night-cruiser.blogspot.com/2017/04/comic-digital-archive-robot-archie.html (http://the-night-cruiser.blogspot.com/2017/04/comic-digital-archive-robot-archie.html)
Here's yet another comic character named Archie... this one even pre-dating Archie Andrews' first appearance in PEP. Meet Archie Atkins, Desert Scout (Royal Australian Tank Corps). He first appeared in Quality Comics Group's MILITARY COMICS #1 (Aug. 1941). To be sure, this Archie was quickly forgotten and dropped from the line-up of features, as he was vastly overshadowed by the star of the comic, Blackhawk, and his paramilitary freelance air squadron, the Blackhawks (no more confusing than Archie Andrews and The Archies, I guess). This particular splash page was from issue #3, in case you're wondering.
(https://box00.comicbookplus.com/viewer/2e/2e2299cd84fd8a4e2c2a3d8a8b69633a/54.jpg)
...So I"m not the only person here weird enough to have made this connection :smitten: !!!!!!!!!! By the way, there was a popular ventriloquist's dummy character on British radio and TV of the 40s and 50s called Archie Andrews! :D There's a Wikipedia entry for him.
...I remember that here, some years ago when Charlie Sheen was on that bizarre " setting up household with XXX stars " trip, someone did a fan art here showing Charlie with Betty and Veronica as two of his " angels " 8) :smitten: - I sure 'nuff can't draw, but, IF :D ;D .........