Further Adventures Pt.18 - No.1279

RUSSELL NOW FOLLOWS WTF FACTS ON TWITTER

MrsGrumpazoid: Just catching up with #Sherlock so far so good, no @russelltovey to ruin it!

russelltovey: @MrsGrumpazoid thank God eh?

russelltovey: RT @WTFFacts Male Kangaroos have been known to give themselves blow jobs.

PIRATE PETE GOES GLOBAL, LORDY!

RussTov_FanSite: @PeteLordAardman The Golden Globes is being broadcast live in Oz – make sure you wave on the red carpet OK x

PeteLordAardman: @RussTov_FanSite Did you see me? I kept trying to stand in the back of other people's photo ops.

RussTov_FanSite: @PeteLordAardman I did see a person I thought was you Pete will watch again on our TiVo. Thanks for waving. x

PeteLordAardman: Dang dash and drat. Arthur Christmas robbed in Golden Globes travesty. Oh well. It was a brilliant hilarious event. Look, me and John Lasseter. Both foiled at Golden Globes!

 

Confidential_CC: @PeteLordAardman U don't even look slightly worried. Revenge will be sales figures & longevity - I bet Arthur Xmas will be a perennial hit x

PeteLordAardman: @Confidential_CC Thanks very much. I think you're absolutely right.

PeteLordAardman: Hi. Thanks to everybody for good luck wishes up front and commiserations at the end. Personally I had a blast. That Morgan Freeman eh? Only sorry I couldn't tweet more during Golden Globes - but it was a signal-free zone.

TOVEY ON GRAHAM NORTON SHOW

28/01/2012

The host is joined by former Cagney and Lacey star Tyne Daly and actor Russell Tovey (Being Human). Plus, Maria McErlane presents Grill Graham, in which the host solves listeners' dilemmas, and Bobbie Pryor has the latest travel news.

CAST AND CREW

Host Graham Norton

Guest Tyne Daly

Guest Russell Tovey

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES

OF

THE FAMOUS FIVE

PART.18

  

A Fluffy Tail

by

Tom Markstahler
and 
Tom In Oz
© 2012

Continued from post No.1276

MONKEY BUSINESS

Our gang of hirsute heroes were feeling well pleased with themselves. They had solved an international drug case and they made the front page of the award winning Kehl Chronicle, in an article written by their journalist friend Tom Markstahler.

[Tom later won a Pulitzer Prize for his in-depth crime expose.]

Not only were the magazines and newspapers interested in our heroes, the following week the BBC interviewed the gang for an upcoming episode of the drug related crime show "Meth Busters."

The furry friends were becoming celebrities. A Hollywood movie company approached them and asked them to appear in a Jim Carey sequel called "Ace Ventura Pet Detective" IV but they declined because they didn't think it was the right vehicle for their image. 

Every morning the gang received phone calls, tweets and texts from all around the world. Most folk congratulated them on solving the BIG drug case but there were occasional requests for help. It seemed there were many people who were as poor as church mice and couldn't afford regular detectives.

Dragonite Dragon and Helmut Hamster started an Internet blog about their exploits and set up a contact box where people could leave requests for help. The blog received thousands of hits within days. More in fact, than the almost fictional "Sherlock and Watson" blog which only lasted for a brief 3 weeks in comparison.

 Over a hearty breakfast one morning Sonic Hedgehog, Dragonite Dragon, Crème de la Hamster, Andrex C. Scotty Dog, Prickles Hedgehog, Helmut Hamster, Jasper Bunny, Custard Hamster and Moneypenny Mouse decided it was time this little gang went professional. They also agreed that if this was to work that they could split up into smaller working teams to solve crimes...

One of their first paying detective cases was a bit of a wild goose chase though...Helmut Hamster took a phone call from a distraught man called Jacob Crisp. German born and bred Helmut mistakenly thought Jacob had a small pack of missing chips...

...but it was actually a small pack of missing monkeys! You see…Helmut's English wasn't that good! He didn't know the difference between "marmite" and "marmoset!" 

To be continued...