Meaning of 'a Dudley do right'

[bruce2...@gmail.com]

Spelled do right or do Wright?

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT), bruce2...@gmail.com wrote:

>Spelled do right or do Wright?

Is that the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right

--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

[Peter Moylan]

On 10/06/20 19:29, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT), bruce2...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> Spelled do right or do Wright?
>
> Is that the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right

This is what makes me proud to be an AUE regular. No matter how obscure
the question, there is sure to be someone here who understands it.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org

[RH Draney]

On 6/10/2020 2:29 AM, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT), bruce2...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Spelled do right or do Wright?
>
> Is that the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right

Not to be confused with the Mountie rapper M.C. Do-Well, whose name
appears on street signs a couple of miles south of me:


https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/abab1754917dad3a972588b2826e5b6ff7ad9ac2/c=367-0-4560-3149/local/-/media/Phoenix/GenericImages/2014/07/03/1404422904000-mcdowellroad.jpg

....r

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

Or someone who searches for it!

I had never heard of Dudley Do-Right before this thread.

[Horace LaBadie]

In article <rbqbq0$1i0$1...@dont-email.me>,

Next thing, someone will want to know the meaning of Crabby Appleton.

[Peter Moylan]

My local hardware store sells dowel.

[Jerry Friedman]

That one's not obscure in the U.S. and probably not in Canada.

--
Jerry Friedman

[J. J. Lodder]

Dowels, I guess?

Jan

By way of Dutch 'deuvel', perhaps,
or from older proto-Germanic.
And to French as 'douille'.

[Mack A. Damia]

Do-Right played by K. Farley Dingwipe.

Snidely Whiplash played by B.A. Foulball.

[John Varela]

I was familiarized with Dudley Do-Right by overhearing what my kids
were playing on the TV. The name Dudley Do-Right was clever enough,
but my favorite was the villain in the Felix the Cat program, the
ominous Master Cylinder. Felix the Cat had a long career; I have
photos from the 1920s of my mother and her friends with their
mascot, a Felix the Cat stuffed doll.

--
John Varela

[Lewis]

That is probably true, but Dudley Do-Right wouldn't be considered obscure
by anyone over 30 in the US, I don't think.

--
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a
big enough majority in any town?" - Huckleberry Finn

[Lewis]

Felix was Mickey Mouse before Mickey Mouse. The studio stubbornly refused
to move to sound and his star faded quickly. By the time they realized
their mistake and started making sound cartoons, it was too late, the
mouse house had won.

--
Forget the Joneses. I can't keep up with The Simpsons.

[Peter T. Daniels]

OMG, you never had *The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show*??

It was maybe the first cartoon series ostensibly for children that wasn't.

You don't know about Boris and Natasha, or Mr. Peabody and Sherman and
the Wayback Machine, or Edward Everett Horton's Fractured Fairy Tales?

Yes, the name "Wayback Machine" for that internet archive thingy has
a backstory!

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:42:05 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
<gram...@verizon.net> wrote:

>On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 7:24:34 AM UTC-4, PeterWD wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:14:23 +1000, Peter Moylan
>> <pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>> >On 10/06/20 19:29, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT), bruce2...@gmail.com
>> >> wrote:
>
>> >>> Spelled do right or do Wright?
>> >> Is that the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right?
>> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right
>> >This is what makes me proud to be an AUE regular. No matter how obscure
>> >the question, there is sure to be someone here who understands it.
>>
>> Or someone who searches for it!
>>
>> I had never heard of Dudley Do-Right before this thread.
>
>OMG, you never had *The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show*??

I didn't see it. I don't know whether is was ever broadcast in the UK.

>
>It was maybe the first cartoon series ostensibly for children that wasn't.
>
>You don't know about Boris and Natasha, or Mr. Peabody and Sherman and
>the Wayback Machine, or Edward Everett Horton's Fractured Fairy Tales?
>
>Yes, the name "Wayback Machine" for that internet archive thingy has
>a backstory!

[Snidely]

On Wednesday, Peter Duncanson [BrE] yelped out that:

Deeply embedded in my consciousness. Now to find Nell.

/dps

--
"I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it"
_Roughing It_, Mark Twain

[Kerr-Mudd,John]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:50:22 GMT, "Peter Duncanson [BrE]"
<ma...@peterduncanson.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:42:05 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
> <gram...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 7:24:34 AM UTC-4, PeterWD wrote:
>>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:14:23 +1000, Peter Moylan
>>> <pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>>> >On 10/06/20 19:29, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT), bruce2...@gmail.com
>>> >> wrote:
>>
>>> >>> Spelled do right or do Wright?
>>> >> Is that the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right?
>>> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right
>>> >This is what makes me proud to be an AUE regular. No matter how
> obscure
>>> >the question, there is sure to be someone here who understands it.
>>>
>>> Or someone who searches for it!
>>>
>>> I had never heard of Dudley Do-Right before this thread.
>>
>>OMG, you never had *The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show*??
>
> I didn't see it. I don't know whether is was ever broadcast in the UK.
>

Despite the name of their Executive Producer -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponsonby_Britt

it seems to be an US show -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Rocky_and_Bullwinkle_and_
Friends

Isn't it amazing what one can learn from Wikipedia?

>>
>>It was maybe the first cartoon series ostensibly for children that
> wasn't.
>>
>>You don't know about Boris and Natasha, or Mr. Peabody and Sherman and
>>the Wayback Machine, or Edward Everett Horton's Fractured Fairy Tales?
>>
>>Yes, the name "Wayback Machine" for that internet archive thingy has
>>a backstory!
>

Nope. We're iggerunt Brits. But luckily we now have an internet to
educate and inform us.


--
Bah, and indeed, Humbug.

[Tony Cooper]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:38:03 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <rbqbq0$1i0$1...@dont-email.me> Peter Moylan <pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>> On 10/06/20 19:29, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT), bruce2...@gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Spelled do right or do Wright?
>>>
>>> Is that the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right?
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right
>
>> This is what makes me proud to be an AUE regular. No matter how obscure
>> the question, there is sure to be someone here who understands it.
>
>That is probably true, but Dudley Do-Right wouldn't be considered obscure
>by anyone over 30 in the US, I don't think.

I certainly knew the name, and how to spell it, but I couldn't tell
you what TV cartoon show it was from without looking it up. Rocky &
Bullwinkle ran between 1959 and 1964. During those years I would not
have been watching cartoon shows, and the show was no longer being
aired when my children would have been watching cartoon shows.

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

[bil...@shaw.ca]

On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 12:50:26 PM UTC-7, PeterWD wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:42:05 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
> <gram...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 7:24:34 AM UTC-4, PeterWD wrote:
> >> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 20:14:23 +1000, Peter Moylan
> >> <pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
> >> >On 10/06/20 19:29, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
> >> >> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT), bruce2...@gmail.com
> >> >> wrote:
> >
> >> >>> Spelled do right or do Wright?
> >> >> Is that the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right?
> >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right
> >> >This is what makes me proud to be an AUE regular. No matter how obscure
> >> >the question, there is sure to be someone here who understands it.
> >>
> >> Or someone who searches for it!
> >>
> >> I had never heard of Dudley Do-Right before this thread.
> >
> >OMG, you never had *The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show*??
>
> I didn't see it. I don't know whether is was ever broadcast in the UK.
>

I was in my early teens when it was on. It was a good transition
from kids' cartoons to more mature fare.

> >It was maybe the first cartoon series ostensibly for children that wasn't.
> >
> >You don't know about Boris and Natasha, or Mr. Peabody and Sherman and
> >the Wayback Machine, or Edward Everett Horton's Fractured Fairy Tales?
> >
> >Yes, the name "Wayback Machine" for that internet archive thingy has
> >a backstory!

To my mind, it was very much a U.S.-oriented show. I think distributors
who took U.S. programming to British television might have thought it
unsuitable for British tastes in the early 1960s, when the Carry On
movies were popular.

bill

[Rich Ulrich]

When I was a high school senior in 1964, a friend and I wrote
and performed a "Rocky & Bullwinkle" skit to meet a class
requirement, The "Rocky" audience went beyond what was then
the usual audience for a "TV cartoon show."

I haven't kept up with it, but I see at Wiki that it has had
some sort of TV presence, network or cable, ever since.

"In 2013, Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show were
ranked the sixth-greatest TV cartoon of all time by TV Guide."

I wonder if it was the first TV cartoon show to be aimed
so much at adults.

--
Rich Ulrich

[Lewis]

I saw Rocky and Bullwinkle throughout the 70s and 80s as it was a staple
of morning TV (Saturdays and weekdays).

For kids today, it is on YouTube.

(I checked with two my three friends born in 1984 and both saw it in the
early 90s, One in Houston and the other in Baltimore).

--
Were it not for frustration and humiliation I suppose the human race
would get ideas above its station. -Ogden Nash

[Tony Cooper]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 23:32:45 -0000 (UTC), Lewis

<g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <o4k2efpqf4g6943ka...@4ax.com> Tony Cooper <tonyco...@invalid.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:38:03 -0000 (UTC), Lewis
>> <g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>>>In message <rbqbq0$1i0$1...@dont-email.me> Peter Moylan <pe...@pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 10/06/20 19:29, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 20:48:10 -0700 (PDT), bruce2...@gmail.com
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Spelled do right or do Wright?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is that the cartoon character Dudley Do-Right?
>>>>>
>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Do-Right
>>>
>>>> This is what makes me proud to be an AUE regular. No matter how obscure
>>>> the question, there is sure to be someone here who understands it.
>>>
>>>That is probably true, but Dudley Do-Right wouldn't be considered obscure
>>>by anyone over 30 in the US, I don't think.
>
>> I certainly knew the name, and how to spell it, but I couldn't tell
>> you what TV cartoon show it was from without looking it up. Rocky &
>> Bullwinkle ran between 1959 and 1964. During those years I would not
>> have been watching cartoon shows, and the show was no longer being
>> aired when my children would have been watching cartoon shows.
>
>I saw Rocky and Bullwinkle throughout the 70s and 80s as it was a staple
>of morning TV (Saturdays and weekdays).

Re-runs may have been on some TV channel on Saturday and weekday
mornings, but I wouldn't have been home watching TV on weekday
mornings. My kids would be have been of cartoon-watching age in the
early to mid-seventies, and might have had the set on on a Saturday
morning, but I wouldn't have watched with them.

[David Kleinecke]

In Piers Plowman there is considerable discussion about Do-Well,
Do-Better and Do-Best. The general opinion of the characters
seems to be that Do-Better was a priest and Do-Best a bishop.

[Horace LaBadie]

In article <6vp2eft456g71dubr...@4ax.com>,

Crusader Rabbit preceded Rocky & Bullwinkle by about ten years, and had
much the same tone. No surprise, since both were produced by Ja Ward's
studio.

[JD]

I used to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle here in the UK when I was a kid -
early 60s I'd guess. I remember Boris, Natasha, Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
Dudley Do-Right rings a faint bell, but I couldn't have said from where.
Having looked up the name, it doesn't bring back any memories.

I don't suppose Noggin the Nog ever made it beyond the shores of the UK?

Cheers
John

[RH Draney]

On 6/11/2020 1:30 AM, JD wrote:
>
> I used to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle here in the UK when I was a kid -
> early 60s I'd guess. I remember Boris, Natasha, Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
> Dudley Do-Right rings a faint bell, but I couldn't have said from where.
> Having looked up the name, it doesn't bring back any memories.

Dudley was nothing more or less than a parody of the popular radio
program "Sgt Preston of the Yukon" of a couple of decades earlier...if
your culture didn't have the latter, the former might not have been much
noticed....r

[Peter T. Daniels]

Which we didn't have Over Here.

Maybe they had a different view of the Cold War from ours. Who was
it that was famous for "Better Red Than Dead"? (No, TC, that's not
a request for information. It's a rhetorical question.)

[Peter T. Daniels]

As I said. 1959-64.

Was the Flintstones version of *The Honeymooners* intended primarily
for children (1960-66)? ("The most successful animated series until
The Simpsons.")

[Peter T. Daniels]

They did have Canadians, though. Sgt. Preston and Dudley Do-Right were
RCMP. Each week, Dudley Do-Right would rescue his girlfriend Nell from
a dastardly villain.

The wonderful series *Due South* was a sort of parody of Dudley Do-Right
-- an RCMP assigned to the Canadian consulate in Chicago would get his
buddy, a dimwitted Chicago police detective, out of scrapes on a regular
basis. Among the extraordinary number of Chicago-set series just at the
time I moved back to New York, it was the one that best captured the
feel of the city (*Early Edition* came close) and provoked homesickness.

[bruce2...@gmail.com]

And 'Death Hunt' (1981) starring Charles Bronson was like that, but not a comedy.

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 01:30:26 -0700 (PDT), JD <j...@semaphoresignals.com>

wrote:

>On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 8:50:26 PM UTC+1, PeterWD wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:42:05 -0700 (PDT), "Peter T. Daniels"
>> <gram...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>> >On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 7:24:34 AM UTC-4, PeterWD wrote:
>
>> >> I had never heard of Dudley Do-Right before this thread.
>> >
>> >OMG, you never had *The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show*??
>>
>> I didn't see it. I don't know whether is was ever broadcast in the UK.
>>
>> >
>> >It was maybe the first cartoon series ostensibly for children that wasn't.
>> >
>> >You don't know about Boris and Natasha, or Mr. Peabody and Sherman and
>> >the Wayback Machine, or Edward Everett Horton's Fractured Fairy Tales?
>> >
>> >Yes, the name "Wayback Machine" for that internet archive thingy has
>> >a backstory!
>>
>> --
>> Peter Duncanson, UK
>> (in alt.usage.english)
>
>I used to watch Rocky and Bullwinkle here in the UK when I was a kid -
>early 60s I'd guess.

In the early 60s I was in my mid 20s and had no reason to watch
children's TV. I'm not sure that I even had a TV.

> I remember Boris, Natasha, Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
>Dudley Do-Right rings a faint bell, but I couldn't have said from where.
>Having looked up the name, it doesn't bring back any memories.
>
>I don't suppose Noggin the Nog ever made it beyond the shores of the UK?
>
>Cheers
>John

[Cheryl]

And let's not forget the CBC radio and TV comedy "The Royal Canadian Air
Farce" and their recurring sketches about Sgt. Renfrew in his lonely log
cabin on the 14th floor of Mountie Headquarters, Ottawa, and his police
dog Cuddles.

--
Cheryl

[Peter Moylan]

On 11/06/20 15:32, Horace LaBadie wrote:

> Crusader Rabbit preceded Rocky & Bullwinkle by about ten years, and had
> much the same tone. No surprise, since both were produced by Ja Ward's
> studio.

Although I don't know Rocky and Bullwinkle, I do remember the Crusader
Rabbit theme:

One little two little three little Indians, ...

--
Peter Moylan Newcastle, NSW

[Peter Moylan]

On 11/06/20 10:05, Tony Cooper wrote:

> Re-runs may have been on some TV channel on Saturday and weekday
> mornings, but I wouldn't have been home watching TV on weekday
> mornings. My kids would be have been of cartoon-watching age in the
> early to mid-seventies, and might have had the set on on a Saturday
> morning, but I wouldn't have watched with them.

I remember my first son's TV watching, because of the technology
involved. I bought two second-hand TV sets. The sound worked on one, and
the (black and white) video on the other, so we just had to turn on both
of them.

A few years later I had a real job (= a regular income) and in time was
able to afford a colour TV set. And by then Master Bates, and Little
Willy, and Roger the cabin boy, had become deniable, so we never saw
them again.