''Beat Your Neighbour'' was a British

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which appeared in ''

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'' in September 1971 and also in ''

Whizzer and Chips ''Whizzer and Chips'' was a British comics magazine that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic '' Buster''. As with most comics of the time, ''Whizzer and Chips'' was dated one week ahead of the day it actua ...

''. The strip centred on two families which lived next door to each other. Although the introductory title picture shows them arguing, the two families often tried to be pleasant to one another while secretly trying to outdo each other. The results were quite often far-fetched but unexpected. One example was when one family said to the other that they should drink more

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for health reasons: the second family ordered more milk, the first family ordered even more, and eventually they were both ordering milk in

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s, until the

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brought the

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s to their houses and told them to milk the cows themselves.

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