Oor Wullie

Oor Wullie ('Our Willie') is a long-running comic strip pubklished in the Scottish family newspaper the Sunday Post. It charts the adventures of a small boy in small town Scotland (the fictional town of Auchenshoogle), with his friends Soapy Souter, Fat Boab and Wee Eck. Other characters include the local policeman P.C. Murdoch, and Wullie's would-be girlfriend Primrose Patterson. Members of The Broons occasionaly appear as minor characters. Wullie's favourite sclothes are his dungarees and clacketty boots, and he is often depicted sitting on an upturned bucket in the yard of his long-suffering parents' house, waiting for his favourite meal is mince and dumplings or eating a 'jeely piece' (jam sandwich). Much of the dialogue is conducted in an archaic Scots dialect, and his expostulations ('Help ma boab!' 'Crivvens!' and 'Jings!' have become indelibly associated with him)