That is a question that has deeply puzzled me for some time...
I think the answer is female, deduced from the fact that they are (I think) a husband and wife (and kid) team, and the other one has a beard (not the child, that would be scary).
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man/child/goblin should be old enough to know better by now,
Sun 6 Jan 2002, 7:44,
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I am not so sure
as they are always intoduced as George Francis, and Ian Swan. The kid is the son of ian. That still leaves george as a he/she.
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Lazarus,
Sun 6 Jan 2002, 11:27,
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