Jennigs at School; Surge

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JENNIGS at School; Surge (was Forgotten Dog Star book, favourite 
childhood reading AND Obsession and Pixie Stix)

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, David 
<dfrankis at dial.pipex.com> wrote:

[snip]

> Did anyone read the Jennings series of books by Anthony
> Buckeridge - HP reminds me more of this than any other
> boarding school stories: the sense of humour is similar, and
> the pupil's view of teachers is well done (or seemed so 30
> years ago).  AB was an actual boarding school teacher.
> 
> David

Oh yes, yes, YES!  In an absolutely wonderful rewrite into Norwegian 
by Niels Reinhardt Christensen, whereby JENNIGS became STOMPA (for 
STein Oscar Magel-Paus Andersen).  These books have quite the 
following in Norway (oddly enough, as boarding-schools are most un-
Norwegian).  They were even made into a series of at least four 
movies, and there was a large number of radioplays for Children's 
Hour on Norwegian Radio (a programme that is roughly 70 years old, 
and still going strong with older children (a term open to personal 
definition, depending on whether or not you like the radio-plays)).

Two questions:
1.   Where did Jennigs' parents go off to?  In the Norwegian 
editions, they are in USA, but I would suspect that in the original 
they would be in Singapore or Hong Kong.

2.   What does Jennigs stand for?


--- Amber <reanna20 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Now for a caffeine rush, I've heard Surge is the thing to
> drink but I haven't tested this myself...

[snip]

Would Surge happen to be a vaguely yellowy-greenish, semi-opaque 
carbonated concoction of sundry artificial ingredients and additives 
and generous quantities of caffeine, produced by the Coca Cola 
Company, and contained in bottles with hideous green and orange 
labels?  (And did I just make it sound more like a form of chemical 
waste than a beverage?)  It is known as Urge in Norway.  Coca Cola 
apparently used Norway as a test-market for the product, and then 
decided to change the name (and possibly image) a bit for the 
international market.  Norway got to keep the product as Urge, 
though.  I do not know about caffeine-rushes; I seem to be immune to 
both sugar- and caffeine-rushes, and I was mightily puzzled the first 
time I heard of them.

> ~Amber
> (Hrm, a pointless post...thank god for delete buttons!)

Best regards
Christian Stubø
"I will see your pointlessness and raise you one more!"