Time to Pension Off the World's Naughtiest Boy Once and for All ; Dennis the Menace with a Bus-Pass? Seems Unlikely, but the Cartoon Character Is 60 Years Old - a Fact Which Makes Martin Hesp Think He Should Retire While the Going Is Good

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Happy birthday Dennis the Menace, though forgive me if I don't wish you too many happy returns.

Dennis is 60 years old this month, but many folk think he hasn't been allowed to grow old gracefully. All week newspaper columnists and media commentators have been gnashing their teeth over the fact that "The World's Naughtiest Boy" has been dumbed-down to genteel insignificance thanks to the onslaught of political correctness.

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Time to Pension Off the World's Naughtiest Boy Once and for All ; Dennis the Menace with a Bus-Pass? Seems Unlikely, but the Cartoon Character Is 60 Years Old - a Fact Which Makes Martin Hesp Think He Should Retire While the Going Is Good

Being a bad boy certainly ain't what it used to be - as the Beano's old tag-line heralding the world's naughtiest boy used to suggest, Dennis was more than maladjusted. With his Abyssinian wire- haired tripehound Gnasher, ...

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