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  • [OT] Weird Moon Coincidence

    From quadibloc@quadibloc@invalid.com (John Savard) to rec.arts.sf.written on Mon Sep 14 22:15:16 2026
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    I did some web searches recently.
    I always thought that Flash was just a nickname Flash Gordon had
    earned through his performance on the polo field.
    But I found that there are only very sporadic references to an
    ordinary first name for him - one TV series used Steven, and in other
    places, Alex and Larry were used, homages to Alex Raymond and Larry
    "Buster" Crabbe, I presume.
    Also, I learned that the Gordon name was not outlawed in Britain -
    rather, it was the MacGregor name that suffered that fate.
    And in that spate of searching, sparked by a YouTube video I saw, I
    found a list of "riding surnames"... and one list, for one of the
    border regions, included two names that came together on one fateful
    day in July.
    Armstrong. And Nixon.

    John Savard
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  • From William Hyde@wthyde1953@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written on Mon Sep 14 19:06:00 2026
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    John Savard wrote:
    I did some web searches recently.
    I always thought that Flash was just a nickname Flash Gordon had
    earned through his performance on the polo field.
    But I found that there are only very sporadic references to an
    ordinary first name for him - one TV series used Steven, and in other
    places, Alex and Larry were used, homages to Alex Raymond and Larry
    "Buster" Crabbe, I presume.
    Also, I learned that the Gordon name was not outlawed in Britain -
    rather, it was the MacGregor name that suffered that fate.
    And in that spate of searching, sparked by a YouTube video I saw, I
    found a list of "riding surnames"... and one list, for one of the
    border regions, included two names that came together on one fateful
    day in July.
    Armstrong. And Nixon.

    After the 1968 US election there was a brief shot on television of three borderers, Nixon, Johnson and Graham.

    You would probably enjoy George MacDonald Fraser's "The Steel Bonnets",
    a nonfiction account of shenanigans along the English-Scottish border.

    William Hyde


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