Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Trivia Pur$uit

Back in the 1980s, there really was a Womble at Wimbledon. The computer that programmed the tournament draw was nicknamed Womble after the children's television programme, `The Wombles of Wimbledon'.

2 comments:

Catmoves said...

Of course I googled "Womble". Came up with: "Welcome to Womble Multimedia, home of the incredible video editing software package MPEG Video Wizard DVD, MPEG Video Wizard and MPEG2VCR!"
On the other hand, Wikipedia took me to a site where I actually found a pic of one (snoring, for some obscure reason) but very funny character.

david mcmahon said...

Hi Catmoves,

I enjoyed that comment. Yes, the Wombles always looked a bit dozey!

Cheers

David