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Here Pussy Pussy Pussy

Alex

I heard a news story today. I would have laughed at it for two reasons. Firstly it was very funny and secondly I wrote about Mrs Slocombe the other day. Read the post if you don’t quite get the connection.

I say would have laughed at it but I was unable to do so. I had my mouth full and a young lady was bent over me. No I wasn’t having a “special” massage, I was having one of my molars refilled. The dental nurse and my dentists both laughed out loud while all I could do was chortle in a gurgling sort of way and wonder when I’d get to an Internet connection to check the story out.

This is what I heard on the Radio “The Sun newspaper has reported that Blue Peter are in trouble again over rigging phone votes. This time they chose not to use the top-voted name when they asked the viewers to phone in and choose the name of the new Blue Peter cat. They chose the name socks, but the real winner was Pussy … programme makers felt the winning name inappropriate.”

Not having been a viewer of Blue Peter for many years I can’t say I’ve kept track of the animals that have come and gone recently. But I could see why the BBC would not want the Blue Peter cat to be called “Pussy”, I mean imagine the cheap jokes.

However when I was watching the BBC News 24 coverage of the incident later I was surprised to hear that the winning name of the cat was “Cookie”, not “Pussy”. “Odd”, I thought as all three present at my dental work had heard the same story. It wasn’t just me needing my ears cleaning out.

So I did a bit of research. The Guardian says here:

“It is understood that Mr Marson [Producer at the time of the alleged misconduct] was sent home on Monday after it emerged that the name that topped a Blue Peter poll was not given to the show’s cat.

The name that came top is thought to have been deemed inappropriate for a children’s show and the cat was eventually called Socks”

While not explicitly saying “Pussy”, they say the top name was inappropriate. So far, so good. However here on the Guardian website, they quote the name as “Cookie”

So I checked out Sky News here, and according to them:

“Some people apparently use the term [cookie] as a swear word.”

So I see four possibilities:

1) The Sun have made up a story, based on the current embarrassing situation at the BBC
2) The Sun reporter miss-heard or was fed with bad information about the cat’s name
3) The radio station (sorry I don’t know which one it was) made the cock-up
4) There’s a cover-up being staged to ensure that the true winning name “Pussy” is never mentioned again

Does anyone know what really happened?

And should you believe anything in the media any more?

Tags: Blue Peter, Blue Peter cat, Blue Peter cat name, Blue Peter pets, Blue Peter scandal, The Sun, The guardian, pussy, cookie, BBC

7 thoughts on “Here Pussy Pussy Pussy”

  4. yes, i can just she it, the lovely presenter being asked, “can I stroke your pussy” or if its been raining and the cat has just come in, “my, your pussy is wet’, or “can you sit your pussy on my lap”, oh year, loved the story, pussy galore at the moment i am sure, xx

  5. I heard about this Cookie thing, but what usage of the word “cookie” is being referred to? I feel left out if I’m missing an opportunity for smut. When our cat has been out in the rain, he comes in a moist pussy.

  6. I heard it first on my radio but they said the winning name was cookie and the presenters on my radio station did a phone in to see if anyone knew why the name ‘cookie’ had sexual under tones as nobody seemed to think it did. whether its true or not I also heard on the same radio station later that there are now going to be two pussies……socks and cookie

  7. oh and I was thinking before I read this post of publishing a few pictures of my pussy on my blog today……….
    maybe I will wait until another day or maybe I shall still do it

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