Shaun d'Ath gets prizes from the nameless 'Footrot Flats' dog.

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Shaun d'Ath gets prizes from the nameless 'Footrot Flats' dog.

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Footrot Flats', by Murray Ball, was a long-running comic strip; farmer Wal Footrot; his Aunt Dolly, from whose refuge had come the dog, with a name he refused to accept; neighbour Couch Windgrass, girlfriend 'Cheeky' Hobson, and an indomitable cat called 'Horse', among the characters. Radio's Tonight Show had run a competition for the best suggested re-use for Wal's leaking gumboots; Shaun's suggestions of bookends, or with the toecap holed, as a chicken feeder, won him a dog and a Footrot Fl...

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April 1988

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