Nobby's Piles
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Nobby's Piles is the name of a cartoon
in the British
comic Viz. It is one of the longest running strips, having been appearing with some regularity since the mid-1980s.
Nobby is a middle-aged man who suffers from chronic haemorrhoids. In each episode he endures repeated injury to his bottom by terrible accidents. He has been impaled on a church spire after a parachute
jump, had his hemorrhoids stabbed by the rock pick of a mountain climber, fallen into a skip full of broken glass and slid down a rusty metal banister. The contrived ways in which these incidents are set up include Nobby's wife trying to apply some hemorrhoid ointment to her husband whilst in a darkened caravan, trying to distinguish between two bottles labelled 'Pile Ointment' and 'Devil's Brand Hell-Fire Jalapeno
Sauce - Bang! Bang! Molto Explosivo!'. Nobby's agonies often cause him to shoot into the air screaming.
The cartoon provides endless slang
words for hemorrhoids, such as "bum-grapes", Emmas - Emma Freud
s, Clements - Clement Freud
s or Sigmunds - Sigmund Freud
s and various other examples of Cockney
rhyming slang;
In one episode, after his hemorrhoids were removed by a surgeon, he awakens puzzled saying "I can still feel them". The surgeon responds; "Fortunately a donor was found, and we transplanted his Farmers onto your bum. They'll throb like buggery until the stitches come out... and after that they'll just throb like buggery!"
Cartoon
A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...
in the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
comic Viz. It is one of the longest running strips, having been appearing with some regularity since the mid-1980s.
Nobby is a middle-aged man who suffers from chronic haemorrhoids. In each episode he endures repeated injury to his bottom by terrible accidents. He has been impaled on a church spire after a parachute
Parachute
A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag, or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift. Parachutes are usually made out of light, strong cloth, originally silk, now most commonly nylon...
jump, had his hemorrhoids stabbed by the rock pick of a mountain climber, fallen into a skip full of broken glass and slid down a rusty metal banister. The contrived ways in which these incidents are set up include Nobby's wife trying to apply some hemorrhoid ointment to her husband whilst in a darkened caravan, trying to distinguish between two bottles labelled 'Pile Ointment' and 'Devil's Brand Hell-Fire Jalapeno
Jalapeño
The jalapeño is a medium-sized chili pepper that has a warm, burning sensation when eaten. A mature jalapeño fruit is 2–3½ inches long and is commonly picked and consumed while still green, but occasionally it is allowed to fully ripen and turn crimson red...
Sauce - Bang! Bang! Molto Explosivo!'. Nobby's agonies often cause him to shoot into the air screaming.
The cartoon provides endless slang
Slang
Slang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered more acceptable when used socially. Slang is often to be found in areas of the lexicon that refer to things considered taboo...
words for hemorrhoids, such as "bum-grapes", Emmas - Emma Freud
Emma Freud
Emma Vallencey Freud OBE is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator.-Early life:Emma Freud was born on 25 January 1962 and is the daughter of politician and broadcaster Sir Clement Freud and June Flewett. She is the great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud...
s, Clements - Clement Freud
Clement Freud
Sir Clement Raphael Freud was an English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.-Early life:Freud was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud and Lucie née Brasch. He was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of artist Lucian Freud...
s or Sigmunds - Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
s and various other examples of Cockney
Cockney
The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations. Geographically and culturally, it often refers to working class Londoners, particularly those in the East End...
rhyming slang;
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In one episode, after his hemorrhoids were removed by a surgeon, he awakens puzzled saying "I can still feel them". The surgeon responds; "Fortunately a donor was found, and we transplanted his Farmers onto your bum. They'll throb like buggery until the stitches come out... and after that they'll just throb like buggery!"