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March 23

Beetle, beetle, beetle of the yard

My family spent a period of some weeks in Northern Ireland during the mid-1990s, when I was a child. We didn't watch much on TV, but I do remember a show's jingle: "beetle, beetle, beetle of the yard/beetle, beetle, his shell is very hard". I've been unable to find anything significant on Google; the string <"beetle of the yard"> finds exactly seventeen hits, and while one of them appears to discuss a TV show, the general tone of this forum page makes me wonder whether they're joking around. I find essentially nothing about "Squawkie Talkie"; a Google search for <"squawkie talkie" television> finds such highly relevant results as The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and a library catalogue record for a video of this show. Music: I have no idea of the key of the jingle, but if the first note were an F#, the first line (through "yard") would be something like F# A F# E E E C D E, with the A and the first E being minims and the rest being crochets. Channel: I have no idea which channel it was. We had four channels: two BBC (perhaps One and Two?) and two that I can't remember.

With this in mind, can anyone identify the TV show? Nyttend (talk) 02:21, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You can browse BBC One and BBC Two listings (though not regional variations) for the period on the BBC Genome site, here (though it throws up nothing in searches for beetle yard, nor squawkie). Your other two channels will likely have been Channel 4 and the ITV (TV network) - in your case, UTV (TV channel). --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:53, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And ... It's Channel 4's "Squawkie Talkie" - mentioned here and here's episode 3 part 1. --Tagishsimon (talk) 02:57, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Created by John Sparkes and Peter Baikie, who previously appeared together on Absolutely (sketch show). Not mentioned on any of their articles. (And this, all OR.) --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:13, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for your help! Nyttend (talk) 13:16, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Trustworthy websites for PenPals

Can anyone tell me some trustworthy websites for making Pen pals...?--Joseph 04:52, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Typing rating penpal sites into Google led me to here. Seems pretty good. Matt Deres (talk) 10:51, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

War of the Worlds: Goliath Website Block

I'm trying to get on the site for the film War of the Worlds: Goliath but cause I'm using a public computer, their web filter system is blocking the site as Pornography. I've not seen the film & that's why I was going onto the site to find out more about the it. Is it or does it have pornographic content or is the filter on the public computers I'm using daft or something ? 194.74.238.137 (talk) 13:01, 23 March 2016 (UTC) Is there a way for my to paste or attach a screen shot of web filter screen ? 194.74.238.137 (talk) 13:07, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What is the "site" that you mention? Are you able to read the Wikipedia article and you're unable to read the film's website, or are you unable to read the Wikipedia article? The article talks about a good deal of violence (hardly a surprise for something with this title), but it mentions nothing that would be considered pornographic. The film being animated, I suppose that it has less occasion for sexual content than a live-action film would, but I could be wrong; I know nothing about the film. Nyttend (talk) 13:15, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

When I click on the link that's on the Wikipedia page for the films official website, I get a "Access Denied" web filter message on the screen. I can get onto the Wikipedia page for the film okay, & I can use the two links okay (for Rotten Tomatoes & Internet Movie Database). But for some reason this place has blocked the official website. 194.74.238.137 (talk) 13:29, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's a daft filter. The official website features a movie trailer (all battle scenes) and a twelve-minute film that's largely interviews with the production staff, interspersed with scenes from the movie that depict battle scenes; nothing sexual appears anywhere that I noticed. Besides that, the website includes elements such as a "Purchase DVD" link, pages to download the movie, sign up for news about the movie, meet the production team, and the credits. I can't imagine what would cause a human to call this pornographic, so a computer calling this pornographic is probably in error. Nyttend (talk) 13:37, 23 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've reported it to the staff but I'll have to wait to see if they do something. 194.74.238.137 (talk) 13:50, 23 March 2016 (UTC) They've still got it blocked, is there anything in the film it's self that's the reason why it's getting blocked ? 194.74.238.137 (talk) 12:41, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]