To ask if anyone can solve the mystery of the “Clifford Temperature?”

[CliffordMystery]

This has been puzzling my husband and me for about 11 years now…

When my daughter was nearly 3 years old, we asked her if there was anything she would really like as a present.

She said she would really like “a Clifford Temperature.” We obviously asked her questions to try to ascertain what a Clifford Temperature might be, but to no avail.

We guess it might have been something to do with Clifford the big red dog - the Puppy Days one was on CBeebies at the time and she watched it occasionally. I can’t think where else the name Clifford would have come from.

We both imagine the “temperature” element to look like the old totaliser for the Blue Peter appeal - like a giant thermometer.

Of course we did extensive googling at the time, but there did not seem to be such a thing as a Clifford branded thermometer or anything that looked like one in existence.

Does anyone have any ideas as we’re still intrigued to know? Is anyone a Clifford expert and knows an episode where it might have featured?!

DS is nearly 15 now but when he was about 3 the only thing he wanted for Christmas was ‘The flush game’. We searched online for what it could be, went round toy shops, asked nursery, grandparents, basically anyone he spent time with and no one had a clue. DS’s helpful advice was Santa would know what it was. A couple of days before Christmas we were in Toysrus and I asked a shop assistant if she had any ideas. She suggested Mousetrap which has a toilet on the top and sure enough, that was it.

He used to also beg us to play the song ‘I fuff fareena’. Weeks went by with him pleading when it finally came on the radio - I’ve Got a Feeling by the Black-eyed peas! No wonder we never guessed it.

I think chesirecat99 has the most likely solution so far.

Galileo thermometer and the time she saw it, the big red bubble reflected the correct temperature?

@Getawaywithit

No idea. If anyone has any ideas what ‘take the buses’ might be, I’d be grateful. My now 17 year old used to cry for it at breakfast time.

Potato wedges?

@Hilarias

Love these mysteries! We’re currently struggling to work out what almost 3 year old DS means by ‘tegedoh’. We thought he was saying ‘together’ but it doesn’t work for all the times he uses it, eg. ‘Look mummy, tegedoh’.

Hedgehog?

Mine wanted a banga debol and it took me a very long time to realise she meant bouncy ball

Love all these.

Mine, at about 2 kept repeating very gleefully, what sounded like ' I'm on the cow cow'

It definitely had nothing to do with a cow, toy cow, pictures of a cow in any book. The pronunciation was more like a really hard 'k'.

On bloody something tho😆

@Laiste

Don't know OP. Apparently, when i was very small, there was something i used to see out of the car window - only when driving in the countryside - which would cause me to point and panic and cry.

Once i was old enough to try to talk i'd point and cry and shout ''Gum-chumps!

My parents moved heaven and earth to try to work out what the hell a gum-chump was and why it was so upsetting, but never did manage.
(and i don't remember!)

Scarecrows? Gum chumps could be Worzel gummidge?

Bloody terrifying.

This is also reminding me of when we took DD1, then 3, away for a few days in Oxford. Outraged wails as we pulled onto the motorway:

"But I don't WANT to spend the weekend in Halford's!"

That's very funny!!!