Following on from last month’s piece on the Bob Bank Whistler, which also discussed the infamous “Hull Stubbies”, I thought I’d print this post, taken from the unofficial Cardiff City online messageboard on the subject. Thanks to the Brigadier for allowing me to print it. Have you seen an amusing post on an online messageboard/forum etc. Send it in to square@post.com and we’ll consider printing it. Depending on the quality of the piece you send in, you can earn between 1 and 8 Square Points.


Hull Stubbies given legal protection - Exclusive ! [message #511881]


The Brigadier The World Wildlife Fund has just announced that the increasingly rare species of local fauna known as the “Hull Stubbie” (full Latin name – glorius hunteris fairweatherius) is to be given full legal protection under the law. The species is now confined to small isolated pockets of South Wales, particularly the leafy suburbs of Cyncoed, Rhiwbina and the Vale of Glamorgan and can easily be recognised by its worried expression, shifty demeanour and marked tendency to protect its inside pocket at all costs.


Messages:32 Registered: January 2007 Location: Downtown Kairdiff


A spokesman for the WWF confirmed that the move, which affords the “Stubbie” similar protection to other endangered species such as the red squirrel, had come as a result of a perceived increase in persecution over the last fortnight. “Its not that the Stubbie is in any way, genetically inferior,” said the spokesman, “it’s just that it is less successful than its cousins, the increasingly prolific “season ticket holder” (selfrighteousius arrogantius) and, at the top of the food chain, the shy and reclusive “ambassador” (muggus renewus muchtooearlius). These species are just far more adept in competing for food and for Wembley tickets.”


A spokesman for the Stubbies, a Mr Johnnie C. Lately said, “This move is long overdue. The Stubbie is a much maligned species and has been unjustly vilified in all quarters this past fortnight. Stubbies are now becoming desperate, with many on the verge of starvation.”


It seems that Stubbies are not totally without friends though. A local sympathiser (a Mr P Ridsdale of Sloper Road), is apparently organising for some charitable donations to be distributed at 9.00 am this coming Sunday. All local Stubbies interested in availing themselves of this opportunity are advised to begin queuing at the Clarks Pie Shop on Cowbridge Rd at 2.00 am. Around 12500 Stubbies are expected to queue for the 7 tickets available, so the queue will proceed for 43 miles around the streets of Canton, Llandaff and Radyr, and three times around the A470 roundabout, before returning to Ninian Park.


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