Giles Andreae upper second class degree. In 2006 Andreae worked alongside Blunderbus Theatre Company (Nottinghamshire) to adapt his story "Giraffes Can't Dance" to bring it to stage. The company toured this story across the UK. Purple Ronnie is a cartoon character used in greetings cards, T-shirts and other merchandise. Drawn in a simple stick man style with a smiley face and a large oval body, Ronnie is usually shown as a comic poet, the cartoons' rhyming captions being written in a simple style and including mild taboo language. Purple Ronnie cards were first sold in 1987. The character was later used in
Ahoy (greeting) as an informal greeting, comparable to ""Hello"". It was borrowed from English and became popular among people engaged in water sports. It gained wide currency by the 1930s. Two discoveries in Middle High German literature reveal interjections similar to "ahoi". Their forms show no links to the middle English form "hoy" and their meanings offer little connection to the call used to establish contact. In around 1290 Heinrich von Freiberg used the form "ahiu" twice in his adaptation of Tristan as a greeting: "ahiu, Parmenois Tristan!", alongside "ahiu, wie schône sie het sich ûz gefêgetieret", English: "ahiu, how prettily she