a prostitute, but he always gives in by the end. There's a Holness in my Pocket – Young Danny Dearelizadeareliza was the luckiest owner of a miniature Blockbusters host Bob Holness, which lived in his jacket pocket. Thieving Gypsy Bastards – Infamous one-off strip about Irish travellers, the "Mc O'Dougles", who descend on a middle-class front garden and steal and vandalise everything in sight, with the approval of the local council, before moving on. On the next page there was a three-panel "compensatory" strip entitled The Nice, Honest Gypsies. It involved an old Romany woman giving change back to a home owner who had been overcharged for some clothes pegs. An end note adding that in next month's strip The Good Honest Gypsies would be renewing the car tax on their big American car. Both strips caused uproar from race relation groups in the UK. The publishers were accused of promoting prejudice and hatred against an ethnic minority. Following involvement by the UK's Commission for Racial Equality, the British Romany Council and even receiving a reprimand from the United Nations, the next issue of Viz contained a 'cut-out-and-keep' apology, subtitled "what every gypsy's been waiting for!". Thoughtful Bully – A high-school student who can present a good case to his teacher why he should be allowed to bully his classmates. The Kray Kittens – A one off strip about the Kray brothers, Reggie and Ronnie as kittens causing problems for a family man. The Mcbrowntrouts – strip centred on a Scottish family and their toilet-humour antics. A parody of the real comic strip The Broons. The Vibrating Bum-faced Goats – an influential one-off strip where two schoolchildren from the city go to stay with their grandfather in the countryside. The grandfather owns a herd of petrol-driven mechanical goats with buttocks in place of faces – referred to in the strip as robotic rump-resembling ruminants. Thomas the Tank Top and Friends – A parody of Thomas and Friends depicting the titular E2 Tank Locomotive as a wooly jumper. Thomas and the Breakdown - Quarter-page adaptation of Thomas in which a (suicidal?) fellow jumps in front of Thomas causing the engine to have a massive nervous breakdown. The last frame has everyone except Thomas asleep, and from Thomas' shed comes a huge sob! Timothy Potter – Trainspotter – Went round taking video of trains with his camcorder, in particular British Rail Class