Dennis The Menace

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Dennis the Menace

''Dennis the Menace'' could refer to one of two cartoon characters. In one of the strangest coincidences in cartoon history, both characters premiered in comic strip form in the same week, one in the United States, and one in the United Kingdom. Both feature a boy with a tendency to rule breaking, although the tone of the two cartoons is rather different. The US Dennis tends to cause trouble more by accident, whilst the UK version is generally straightforwardly malicious: * Dennis the Menace (UK) * Dennis the Menace (US)

Dennis the Menace

The useful content of the :Dennis_the_Menace/whacking page (as opposed to the tongue-in-cheek content) has been removed to the main page. Please, we musn't let Wikipedia slide into an Everything2-style humor project. It isn't one. It's an encyclopedia project. --User:LMS ---- I put the whacking page in there as an explanatory note. From my reading of US literature it is my understanding that "whacking" means something entirely different in the US than it does in the UK. For UK readers of course it just clutters the text who already know what it means. User:Phil Lord ---- That makes sense to me. --User:LMS ---- The fact that this is a "Britishism" just turned on a light for me. In :The Beatles song, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," there is a background commentary vocal line that goes, "in his life there's something lacking. What he needs is a damn good whacking." This, in American English would simply refer to a good old-fashioned spanking. Though the implication of the line is not really changed by that understanding, it is interesting to note that a common and specific term is being used, not just something colorful to rhyme with "lacking." I am, no doubt, the only person on the planet who cares about this... -- ''Isn't the line from "Piggies" instead?'' It is from "Piggies," courtesy George Harrison, inspiration to colorful figures like Charles Manson. :-) --KQ

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