To not know whether 'Maisy' is a male or a female mouse...?

[DabblingInDisaster]

You know, from the books... its not really gender specific......

I call 'her' a 'she' because of the name.... but 'she' is usually wearing 'boys' clothes... at least the duck wears a tutu occassionally....

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

DS gets very upset every time Pippin does a runner

[maidamess]

Best Pippin ever was when Auntie MAbel flushed one his dog turds down the loo and using the plane they followed it along the pipes to the sewage works.

My boys loved that episode.

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

LOrd knows- they were my childhood pets...I chose very non-gender specific names after those two Perhaps I gave them too many of those vitamin drops

[cheesesarnie]

maidamess that one was great.it will go down in history.'where were you/what were you doing when auntie mabel flushed the poo?'

[maidamess]

I watch too much kids telly.

[clutteredup]

My friends 4 yo DS used it as the perfect excuse to flush his sisters nice soaps down the loo - 'for the man at the sewage farm' Now what sex was he if he would like nice heart shaped smelly soaps - or was he too planning a sexchange?

[Bronze]

1965 Miffy at the zoon says she
Can we pin down a date. Anyone got earlier?

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

lol. whilst we're on the toilet so to speak, does anyone else's lo lift the lid off the cistern to watch the flush mechanism? I think aunty mabel my be to blame for that one, too.

[Bronze]

Zoon? Zoo

[pointydog]

Maisy is a girl name

[pointydog]

Bod is a boy

Hartley Hare from Pipkins was a rather odd boy

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

Hartley hare was a bit camp, from what I remember

Is no-one admitting to having a Miffy book that pre-dates bronze's then? thats a shame.

[Botbot]

Pippin is a girl.

see here

Bod, however, is definitely a boy.

[BroccoliSpears]

I've only ever seen one episode of that aunty mabel programme and it was the poo one. Are they not all that inspired?

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

on the Dick Bruna site,it says that Miffy was originally intended as non gender specific, but Bruna decided to put a dress on her in the first book, so she became a girl, so form a published point of view, she's always been a girl

[pointydog]

Hartley Hare was reminiscent of Larry grayson, you're right

[clutteredup]

Oh those memories of childhood, Larry grayson, Hartley hare, miffy
Girl, girl, boy in that order -

[Flobberghasted]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
this once made dh and i ROW

Name MAISYs freinds

you will get confused wiht peppa pig

its the law

[clutteredup]

that was before the prolferation of sexchanges in the 1980's - don't you remmeber Margaret Thatcher started it all

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

LOl bulls don't have udders! but do they have man nipples?

[pofaced]

Of course Maisy and Miffy are both girls. I think Maisy is a girl because she has a girl's name and wears girls' clothes (albeit dungarees and striped shirt)

Miffy's also a girl because her name sounds like a girl's name and she wears girl-type clothes when compared to the male rabbits in the stories.

Julian and Dick in the Famous Five are boys while Anne and George are girls while Timmy's the dog

I despair

[PInkyminkyohnooo]

Rosie in Rosie's Walk looks suspiciously like a cockerel

[clutteredup]

man nipples on bulls!!! PMSL - I've seen the thingy but never really got close enough for the man nipples!!!1