Questions for non-Brits.

I thought you'd pick up on my switching of TV series, but thought after a little diversion, we were back on track with the thread, with the characterisation of Festus? He was cantankerous, stubborn and illiterate, but wouldn't admit it, nor do anything about it.  As Matt Dillon's Deputy, he could be amusing. Had he been put in charge of Dodge City, he could have been a disaster for the people living there. Had he found himself running a whole country--or a large department within it-- it doesn't bare thinking about; a rather frightening prospect. Reference to Peter's earlier comment, which gets repeated in mine ( Festus giving the folk of Dodge City numbers instead of names), I think Festus is alive and well but switched his cowboy hat for assorted other ones over the decades. I think we all know a Festus Hagen or two--though not necessarily by that name!

Happy Trails, Ruth

Paul writes>>>>He was cantankerous, stubborn and illiterate, but wouldn't admit it, nor do anything about it.

I thought he was talking about that Peter again!!

Ah yes...remember Gil Favor ( I think that's how you spell it) "Head em up, move em out!" Then the start of the great theme music 'Keep moving, moving, moving, though they're disapproving, keep those doggies moving rawhide...'

Those were the days.