The title is a rhyming couplet when read in the Scottish accent of the Beano's Dundee home town.

In the exhibition celebrating the Beano's seventieth birthday, it was revealed that he was originally to be called Oswald the Ostrich, but a last minute change by then Beano Editor George Mooney changed it to the now titular Big Eggo.

In September 2009, the Beano's 3, 500th issue was published.

The Beano's 50th Anniversary issue in 1988 was significant as an increase in the number of colour pages in the comic led to Minnie appearing in full colour for the first time.

Long considered one of the readers ' favourite characters, she was created during what many fans feel is the Beano's golden age where other famous characters were created such as Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger.

** Mary, A mule originally had her own strip called Contrary Mary which was in the Beano's first issue, she joined Snooty's gang in 1950.

The strip, drawn by Wayne Thompson, who was also the artist for the Beano's Billy Whizz and Jak in the Dandy, was about a boy who had a black belt in Karate.

While probably not totally intentional, this was part of the Beano's recent move towards using more comic violence.

After the 2009 Bash Street Kids annual ( Space Cadets ) was published, Paterson's work on Singled Out was changed to be more like Pearse's style, where before it was akin to David Sutherland's style, while Nigel Parkinson drew it in the Beano's sister comic, BeanoMAX.

On an older version of the Beano's website a map of Beanotown showed there was even a Dandytown embassy in Beanotown.

The Beano's first edition was dated 30 July 1938.

In March 2009, after great work on both of the strips, he was picked as the artist for The Beano's revival of Fred's Bed.

In the issue dated 28 January 2012, The Beano's cover changed.

This even consists of attempting to sink war submarines, something the old character used to do during The Beano's war times.

They made another appearance in the Beano's 2008 Summer Special, again drawn by Chris McGhie.

A reshuffle of the Beano's artists ( coinciding with the comic's move to all-colour printing ) saw Parkins leave the strip in 1993, and Neill became the main artist, upon which he began further tweaking Billy's appearance, the most notable change being that the two long hairs he had always been drawn with were turned into a thunderbolt.

* Buzz ( Buzz Belmondo ) — The manager of Beano's diet clinic, and one of the more eccentric characters in the town.

The strip is very similar to DC Thomson stablemate The Beano's Ball Boy strip.

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

Was it preferable to meet her at home or in the city??

For those who plan to travel to Europe by one route and return by another some agencies offer a service whereby you can pick up a car in one city on arrival and leave it in another city, or even another country, when you are ready to return home.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

When he turned into the highway that led to the outskirts of the city and then rose toward home, he had to pull over to the curb and wait for a few minutes, sucking in air and squinting and blinking his eyes to clear them of tears.

The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

Temples were still being dedicated to the national god Ashur in his home city and in Harran during the 4th century AD, indicating an Assyrian identity was still strong.

AZ play their home games at the AFAS Stadion, located in the southern part of the city of Alkmaar.

The Bonapartes at the time had a modest four-story home in town ( now a museum known as Casa Buonaparte ) and a rarely used country home in the hills north of the city ( now site of the Arboretum des Milelli ).

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

In the city are a Carnegie library and Beulah Park of 24 acres ( 97, 000 m² ) & home of the Madison County " 4H Fair ".

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

The city is home to the University of Bonn, one of Germany's most reputable institutions of higher learning.

The city is still a major center for textiles in Turkey and is home to the Bursa International Textiles and Trade Center ( Bursa Uluslararası Tekstil ve Ticaret Merkezi, or BUTTIM.

Victory parades are often held for triumphant sports teams, who often tour their home town or city in an open-top bus.

The city Guildhall, Derry | Guildhall, home to the Inquiry

Tavistock was chosen as the host city because it was the home of Eckhardt Wettlaufer, the maker of the earliest known board.

The Funanese Empire rose to eminence from its affluent and powerful home city of Oc Eo ( in nowadays Vietnam ), known in the Roman Empire as Kattigara, meaning the Renowned City.

However, the city continues to be home to many startups as well as a thriving biotech industry.

In India, many of Mumbai's Dabbawalas use bicycles to deliver home cooked lunches to the city ’ s workers.

The areas, which are home to most of Cairo's embassies, are surrounded on the north, east, and south by the older parts of the city.

The club play their home games at the Murrayfield Ice Rink and compete in the ten team professional Elite Ice Hockey League along with three other Scottish teams which are the Fife Flyers, Braehead Clan and the Dundee Stars.

Lineker played in Barcelona's home and away defeats to Dundee United.

Discovery in 2005 at its home port of Dundee

* May 14 Dundee United FC are crowned Champions of Scotland for the first time in their history by winning the Scottish Premier League on the final day of the league season at the home of their city rivals Dundee FC at Dens Park

As early as 1844, Pinkerton worked for Chicago Abolitionist leaders, and his Dundee home was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Straight away, I pencilled a drawing of ' The Kids of Bash Street School ' and posted it from my home in Preston to R. D. Low, the managing editor of D. C. Thomson's children's publications in Dundee.

He then moved to Illinois and persuaded the natives of his new home to rename their community " Dundee ".

Dundee was the original home of Seneca Foods.

Dundee invites Flaherty to accompany him home and share some hot coffee and more brandy, adding, "... and we'll thank God for miracles, Flaherty ..."

* Dundee is known as the " City of Discovery " and is the home of Scott of the Antarctic's ship the RRS Discovery.

He refused, and with some retainers retired to his home, Dudhope Castle near Dundee.

Born at Benvie, near Dundee, where his father was a kirk minister, Playfair was educated at home until the age of fourteen, when he entered the University of St Andrews.

** 2nd round: Lost 1 – 3 on aggregate to Dundee United ( 1 – 3 at home, 0 – 0 away ).

His final competitive game at home for Celtic came in a league match against Dundee United, and he scored both goals as Celtic won 2 – 1.

* Robbie Winters ( Scottish Footballer ) Robbie started out at Scottish Premier league side Dundee United as a youth product, and after 4 eventful season's at Tannadice he moved on to fellow SPL side Aberdeen FC in a memorable transfer that saw Dons forward Billy Dodds move in the opposite direction ( plus cash ). Winters went on to play in Norwegian football before returning home to play for Livingston FC and Alloa FC in the twilight of his career.

Sir James remarked at this ceremony that by returning to Dundee he was “ in a real sense, coming home ”.

) Luttrell was promptly re-arrested for debts to a Dundee merchant, Robert Craig, but Regent Arran paid the merchant in September, and Luttrell was allowed home.

Evidence exists of a human settlement in pre-historic times, later developing into a prosperous fishing and whaling village, before becoming home to 19th century jute barons who had their factories in Dundee.

Broughty Ferry is home to Grove Blackwatch which is part of the Angus and Dundee Battalion of the Army Cadet Force.

Lorraine Kelly, the TV presenter, has a home in Broughty Ferry, as does legendary Dundee United manager Jim McLean.

Later on, he scored his second but also his last goal in a 4: 0 home win against Dundee United.