aibu to think that Mum and Dad should be beaten with a stick.........

[mcrvamp]

For calling their poot kids Biff, Chip, and Kipper?

The poor little sods.

[redexpat]

Isn't one of the Small Potatoes called Chip? They're awesome,and thus it follows anyone else called Chip must be equally as awesome. No?

[Petsinmypudenda]

Chip from chip and dale is another awesome chip

[TheGoldenKnid]

Lock them up and throw away the key.

[BillyBollyBandy]

And Chip from Beauty and the Beast

[TheOneWithTheHair]

But kipper is a dog and who would ever want to be called Chip?

[worldofmyown]

It does take the piss to be honest :-)

[notanaxemurderer]

I quite like Biff. I would like two boys called Biff and Happy, like in Death of a Salesman.

[KenLeeeeeee]

Even worse, isn't Biff a girl? I'm sure she is...

[peanutMD]

Isn't Biff a girl?

[peanutMD]

Oops x-post!

[blueraincoat]

I first read that as a Mum and Dad so I was thinking you knew some parents who did this and thought no... they didn't... then it clicked you were talking about the actual book. Fail.

The dog is called Floppy!

[TheOneWithTheHair]

Oh crap. I meant who would ever want to be called Biff.

[EverybodysCryEyed]

Isn't biff short for Elizabeth and chip for Charles?

No idea about kipper

[EverybodysCryEyed]

Kipper is a nn for Christopher I think

So YABU because there is no way ds could have read the given names!

[Dahlen]

Totally agree. Was only commenting on this earlier today. I mean who in their right minds??? If any of my DC grow up saying they want to name their future child one of these names I shall know where to place the blame.

[SoleSource]

Is this a cartoon?

[worldofmyown]

Thanks "redexpat" im sitting here singing the small potatoes theme tune lol

[Jas]

This explains two out of three of them

[Dahlen]

School reading scheme books SoleSource.

[EverybodysCryEyed]

How the hell do you get chip from David?

[TheGoldenKnid]

If only the parents had posted in the Mumsnet baby names section!

[NeverHaveIEver]

YANBU!

And, may I add, their lives have a poor narrative structure. (Deus ex machina magic keys? Tut)

[mcrvamp]

When my son bought the book home from school I thought wtf!?

What happened to Peter and Jane? They were the good old days.

[TheOneWithTheHair]

We used to have Topsy and Tim as well as Peter and Jane. Anyone remember them?

[TheOneWithTheHair]

Actually wasn't there a spin off tv cartoon thing called The Magic Key or something that was Biff, Chip and Kipper. It also had the dog in it.