Eccles (character) Eccles: "He was living proof that the Piltdown Skull was not a hoax." The Eccles character and his distinctive voicing were strongly influenced by Milligan's childhood love for the classic Walt Disney cartoons and specifically Disney's anthropomorphic buffoon dog character Goofy. However Eccles transcended the denseness of Goofy, being instead more like a young adult with childlike impulses, which may explain his friendship with Bluebottle. His special talent is for taking things he hears literally, with humorous and occasionally insightful results. Thus: and in the same conversation (from "The Last Goon Show of All"): During an arctic expedition in "Scradge":
Bluebottle OS Bluebottle OS Bluebottle (formerly known as AOS and now as A2) is a modular, object-oriented operating system. Originally developed at ETH Zurich, it has some unconventional features, including automatic, garbage-collected memory management. It is the next generation of Native Oberon, the x86 PC version of Niklaus Wirth's Oberon operating system. It is small, fast, supports multiprocessor computers, and provides soft real-time operation. It is entirely written in an upward-compatible dialect of the Oberon programming language called Active Oberon. Oberon and Active Oberon are members of the Pascal family, along with Modula-2. A2's design allows the development of efficient systems based