No Oor Wullie bizarre bucket trail thread?

[HoratioCuthbert]

Post your Oor Wullie pics here. Or don’t. I’m easy.

Inverness

 

[Sue]

Oh! I think this might explain the conversation my sisters are having on whatsapp that I didn't fully understand...

 

[danny la rouge]

I’m easy.

:neutral face:

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Has your migraine reduced you to toilet humour?!?!?

 

[danny la rouge]

I’m ashamed.

 

[weepiper]

Hunners of them in Edinburgh. They freak me out a bit tbh I don't have a picture of it in situ but the Tunnock's one on Cockburn Street is the best I've seen.

 

[geminisnake]

Nanker Phelge see post above

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

Hunners of them in Edinburgh. They freak me out a bit tbh I don't have a picture of it in situ but the Tunnock's one on Cockburn Street is the best I've seen.View attachment 177415

They do indeed have something of a creep factor!

 

[bellaozzydog]

Grew up with oor Willie and the Broons. Got the annuals every year from my Grandma along with a Cadbury’s Christmas selection box

 

[Orang Utan]

It's a bit goatse

 

[Lord Camomile]

Grew up with oor Willie and the Broons. Got the annuals every year from my Grandma along with a Cadbury’s Christmas selection box

Yup, my dad has always upheld the same tradition (although not with the chocolates ).

 

[Edie]

What does any of this mean? What’s that Willie thing? Creepy af.

 

[Sue]

What does any of this mean? What’s that Willie thing? Creepy af.

Jings!

 

[Lord Camomile]

Crivens!

 

[weepiper]

Help ma Boab!

 

[Guineveretoo]

I also grew up with Oor Wullie and have enjoyed seeing the photos from friends who live in Scotland.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

No idea what this is about but enjoying the language

 

[Guineveretoo]

No idea what this is about but enjoying the language

Home - Oor Wullie's Big Bucket Trail

 

[quimcunx]

I saw a couple in broughty ferry the other day but didn't wander close enough to take photos.

They did them just in Dundee in 2016 but have changed the design, made them a bit smaller and spread them all over this year.

Last year we had penguins.

Old design:

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

What does any of this mean? What’s that Willie thing? Creepy af.

Ha! It’s creepy even if you owned all the annuals. Oor Wullie and The Broons- and the Dandy and the Beano- all comic strips produced by DC Thomson

DC Thomson - Wikipedia

 

[HoratioCuthbert]

What does any of this mean? What’s that Willie thing? Creepy af.

I tried to share with you the song “Dandy and The Beano” by Sheena Wellington to get you right in the zone but apparently it’s not on the go to place for tunes- youtube

 

[pogofish]

They did them just in Dundee in 2016 but have changed the design, made them a bit smaller and spread them all over this year.

There are loads in Dundee City Centre as well - one at almost every turn last week.

Yes - this is the first national Bucket Trail. Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire has also run two local trails before this - First year was Dolphins, next was Anchors, to raise money for the Anchor Foundation - a significant local cancer charity. With the DC Thomson tie-up, it meant that they inevitably took it national.

I may have no liking at all for DC Thomson but Anchor/Archie are a different matter and they have genuinely done a lot of good/raised a lot of money over the years. I've been doing the odd job for them since I moved-over at work and although strictly its all chargeable stuff I take a little pride in having never submitted a bill - and nobody's chased me-up for it.

This is our Wullie - Scottish Myths and Legends. Our artist Charlie has been working on it for months. First the initial design/selection period, then she spent ages in a disused building, painting it before it got packed-off for lacquering and eventually placed at its destination - The Torry Battery in Aberdeen:

Needless to say, we have been making the utmost of the considerable potential for "Charlies Wullie" jokes at work...!

 

[pogofish]

They have similar trails in other places - Here's a big Polish cock:

And some Berlin bears:

 

[salem]

I had a few of these annuals from the charity shop when I was a kid, loved them was probably my first positive taste of Scottish culture.

 

[pogofish]

These are our Dolphins from the original trail:

The Doric Dolphin:

Swimmers of the World:

The Oceans Dance:

And not one of ours but the Dolphin that almost made it back to the wild during the Storm Frank flooding:

 

[pogofish]

Here are a few of the Dundee Wullies:

 

[iamwithnail]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that finds them creepy!

 

[Yossarian]

Seen a lot of them in Aberdeen, including these two in Hazlehead Park:

 

[Magnus McGinty]

What’s a “bucket trail”?

 

[pogofish]

Oor Wullie is often depicted sitting on an upturned bucket in the comic strips - Hence ~ Bucket Trail.

Quite a few of the Wullies also have a second bucket beside Wullie for people to sit-on and pose with him.