Captain Pugwash is a persistent urban legend, repeated by the now defunct UK newspaper the "Sunday Correspondent", that ascribes sexually suggestive names – such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines, and Roger (meaning "have sex with") the Cabin Boy – to "Captain Pugwash"'s characters, and indicating that the captain's name was a slang Australian term for oral sex. The origin of this myth is likely due to student rag mags from the 1970s. John Ryan successfully sued both the "Sunday Correspondent" and "The Guardian" newspapers in 1991 for printing this legend as fact. In May 2017, a live-action film adaptation was announced, directed
The Horse and His Boy in the series. Like the other novels in "The Chronicles of Narnia", it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes; her work has been retained in many later editions. "The Horse and His Boy" is the only novel within "The Chronicles of Narnia" that features children from the imagined world of Narnia (rather than English characters) as the main characters. It is also the only novel within "The Chronicles of Narnia" that takes place entirely in the fictional Narnian world. The novel is set in the period covered by the last chapter of "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" (which was