Biggles Out Of Context

Biggles is a fictional British flying ace, and the hero of about a hundred books written between 1932 and 1968 by Captain W.E. Johns, who died literally in the middle of writing "Biggles Does Some Homework". Some of the earlier stories provide a kind of harrowing matter-of-fact look at how shitawful it was to be a pilot in the First World War. Most of them are just full of unintentionally humorous bullshit. This blog does what exactly what it says on the URL, but really this stuff is not any less ridiculous in context.

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"O.K., big boy!" cried Ginger enthusiastically.

from Biggles and the Black Peril

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from Biggles' Chinese Puzzle

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"Well, I should think I've saved our chaps in the line a lot of trouble," he soliloquised.

from Biggles, Pioneer Air Fighter

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from Biggles Makes Ends Meet

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"Leeches," he said thickly, "millions of 'em."

from Down In The Forest in Biggles Flies Again

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"I've no desire to be torn to pieces in mid-air by infuriated crustaceans."

from Fair Cargo in Biggles Flies Again

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"I don't like places where people die," observed Algy

from The Blue Orchid in Biggles Flies Again

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"Not hot enough?" answered Biggles. "Holy mackerel! It feels hot enough to me to grow doughnuts."

from The Battle Of Flowers in Biggles, Pioneer Air Fighter

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from Biggles In The Orient

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from Biggles Fails To Return

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from Biggles In The Jungle

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Wilks looked down at the mutilated remains of his underwear, and then started. His gaze ran over the assembled S.E.5 pilots, a new suspicion dawning in his eyes.

from Humbugs in Biggles Of 266

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from Biggles Follows On

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andrealessi:

I am serious, my friends and I used to very nearly piss ourselves laughing at the innuendo and double entendres in every Biggles book.

His relationship with Ginger wasn’t even closeted, it was full on stiff-upper-lip sexytimes.

I think you mean his relationship with Algy

come on now really

Ginger was just a hanger-on Biggles found in a ditch and bought off his parents for five pounds to piss Algy off

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“By gosh, they’re my pyjamas!” His voice rose to a bellow of rage. He flung the tattered debris of the garment on the ground and stamped on it.

from Humbugs in Biggles Of 266