Who would be in charge of the Wombles if Great Uncle Bulgaria Died?

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MidnightRambler87@reddit

I want a Wombles trilogy a la Paddington.

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pennikin@reddit

My ex thought the song was " the Wombles of Wimbledon 'common are we ! '" should've noticed at the time

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Hitonatsu-no-Keiken@reddit

I thought that as a kid. I'd never heard of Wimbledon Common but I'd heard of Wimbledon because of the tennis.

It made perfect sense: Common are we.

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steak-and-kidney-pud@reddit

I asked my wife about this and she said it’s OK because Wombles are immortal. They age for a while and then just sort of stabilise at a set age and then don’t get any older or pass away.

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Tramkrad@reddit

Your wife needs to stop living in fantasy land. Seriously, this is embarrassing. It's 2024 and a fully grown woman is out the beliving in immortal Wombles? Ridiculous.

I mean, even a cursory Google search will confirm that the average life expectancy of a Womble is 300 to 400 years.

Long lived, yes, but hardly immortal.

https://www.tidybag.uk/people/the-wombles-interview/#:~:text=Because%20Wombles%20live%20so%20long,300%20or%20400%20years%20old.

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Indeed. Uncle Bulgaria danced the minuetto allegretto, in the late 18th century, which means he was probably born, like Mozart, in the 1750s, so was about 220 in the 1970s, and 270 now. So potentially another century at the helm, unless the microplastics got to him.

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Cyberhaggis@reddit

Or gets illegally hunted by Womble coursers

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GregoryOboe@reddit (OP)

Must suck being randomly selected to be the 'old' Womble while all the others are still young and fit and out hunting womblussy

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WritingRatty@reddit

I don't think the Wombles are dtf, they probably reproduce by mitosis or something, and only when needed.

Oh shit , Bungos got leprosy, lets get Wellington to pinch one off and make a new Bungo.

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exkingzog@reddit

r/brandnewsentence

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billsmithers2@reddit

Ah yes. Simpsons disease.

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SubjectBiscotti4961@reddit

In this current society it would be Madam Charlet, you have to have the focus on the wamen

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hongkonghonky@reddit

Bungo is described as 'bossy and enthusiastic'

I think that he would stage a coup.

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Spank86@reddit

Pretty sure they'd form an anarcho-syndicalist commune at that point.

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steak-and-kidney-pud@reddit

What, with a sort of executive officer for the week...?

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Russell_W_H@reddit

Given the state of the environment I'd go for anarcho-cynicalist.

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Chevalitron@reddit

Wimbledon Commune

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snowmanseeker@reddit

Wellington, of course.

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wistmans-wouldnt@reddit

Wellington would be reluctant but flourish, like Michael Corleone.

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bopeepsheep@reddit

Wellington is a SysAdmin, not a manager.

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pennikin@reddit

He always gave me Elton John vibes

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Sir_Henry_Deadman@reddit

Whoever emerges victorious follows years of bitter civil war across the Common

They'll inherit the charred wreckage of the Womble civilization

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Pandita666@reddit

Maybe Tomsk could man the fuck up?

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EastOfArcheron@reddit

I don't care, they're all common anyway.

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Bill_Hubbard@reddit

Noel Edmonds!

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Perfect_Jellyfish_64@reddit

Nooooo! There's something really not right about that man. He would install Mr Blobby as a puppet leader, take over complete control, imprison them in their burrow - the sex dungeon - and pimp them out to make their living on the common in other ways.

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Gary_James_Official@reddit

It's Noel Edmonds. That's a best case scenario...

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richdrich@reddit

Or descend on an unsuspecting New Zealand village, buy all the businesses and then underpay and abuse the staff.

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batch1972@reddit

Slightly Crazy Poland visits and takes over

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Lopsided_Soup_3533@reddit

They could crossbreed with the moomins and create a new race might solve everything if the moobles take over

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RochesterThe2nd@reddit

Madame Cholet is the only one they’d all defer to.

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chuckchuckthrowaway@reddit

Well they could keep her around, as a sort of figurehead, or mascot? She could hob-nob with visiting dignitaries and whatnot.

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GourangaPlusPlus@reddit

Let's hope they can move to a constitutional monarchy without the normal civil war

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Scooberto45@reddit

Big brother

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elom44@reddit

I’ve just realised that I’ve spent the last 10 minutes thinking about this. I’m going with Orinoco, it’d be the making of him.

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GourangaPlusPlus@reddit

"Some Wombles are born into greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them"

Orinocco

In cinemas Summer 2025

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inflatablefish@reddit

Mate have you never heard The Orinoco Kid? The wild west was the making of Orinoco.

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Scarred_fish@reddit

Came here to say Orinoco.

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Y-Bob@reddit

Absolutely Orinoco.

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Outrageous_Shake2926@reddit

Going with the flow.

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Rastadan1@reddit

The obvious and correct choice

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duncdragged@reddit

Grandfather Flump

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MelodicAd2213@reddit

With Professor Yaffle in reserve

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PastAmountPast@reddit

Ops single handedly going to recomission the show for us to get the answers we deserve.

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sbisson@reddit

Obviously Alderney.

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BuzzAllWin@reddit

Think their errant nephew Henman would have to step up, if only some one had left behind the wimbledon trophy

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WebDevWarrior@reddit

Henman would lose in the semi-finals (again) and would be demoted to stand watch for humans on the hill.

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stocksy@reddit

There would be a power vacuum, all would perish in the violent aftermath.

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Chevalitron@reddit

The Wombles is just Dwarf Fortress for kids.

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Toenex@reddit

I can't help feeling Tomsk would be the last Womble standing.

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SneakyTrevor@reddit

It’s a when not an if.

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SpaTowner@reddit

*‘Cholet’, it’s the name of a commune in France.

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Subbeh@reddit

Great Great Uncle Thrace

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fanacapoopan@reddit

Orinoco...he will always remember!

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jamtart68@reddit

I think Orinoco would revel in the responsibility

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Goldf_sh4@reddit

This is too sad to contemplate.

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jj_sykes@reddit

All I am asking is we give Tomsk a chance. He is the oldest and strongest of all the Wombles

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AliveAd2219@reddit

I can’t believe this question isn’t being discussed in parliament. We need to get ahead of this.

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TrashbatLondon@reddit

Merton council would assume de facto control.

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GregoryOboe@reddit (OP)

Wasn't there a racially insensitive Scottish Womble that was pretty old?

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DameKumquat@reddit

The MacWomble. He wouldn't want to settle in Wimbledon, though. And they wouldn't want his bagpipes.

I reckon young Bungo would get put up as the compromise candidate.

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Impossible_Pop620@reddit

They would hold a hugely divisive election, between a feisty but rather unlikeable young lady womble (Aldernay?) And the now much older Orinoco, now sporting a combover style ginger wig.

The wombles would split along gender and class lines before the election is finally over and they can all remember they're a womble again.

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helpnxt@reddit

Womble civil war of course

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SquidsAlien@reddit

He was old in the 1970s - I hate to have to correct the "if" part of your question, but.....

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GregoryOboe@reddit (OP)

Someone else says the old fart is immortal, so we have that good for us

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GregoryOboe@reddit (OP)

I forgot about the next gen woms

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GregoryOboe@reddit (OP)

I don't think he would want it. He wants to noodle around with inventions and not be a politician

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GregoryOboe@reddit (OP)

Outside the box choice is Tomsk I guess, or am I too high?

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SnoopyLupus@reddit

He’s who I’d pick. Always levelheaded.

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Final_Flounder9849@reddit

Madame Cholet might be a bit concerned who this upstart Charlet is!

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GregoryOboe@reddit (OP)

Man, my Womble spelling needs some improvement

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Drewski811@reddit

Finally, someone's asking the real questions on this sub.

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