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The Daily Telegraph has said
That Bert Fry's alter ego's dead.

Wikipedia gave the date,
This year on February eight
Eric Allan passed away
Farewell Keith from "Nuts in May."

Farewell Eric, farewell Bert
Farewell Les from down "The Street"
Don't "Hold the Back Page" any more
Reginald has gone before.


Nick

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Nick Odell wrote:

The Daily Telegraph has said
That Bert Fry's alter ego's dead.

Wikipedia gave the date,
This year on February eight
Eric Allan passed away
Farewell Keith from "Nuts in May."

Farewell Eric, farewell Bert
Farewell Les from down "The Street"
Don't "Hold the Back Page" any more
Reginald has gone before.

Didn't Roger Sloman play Keith? It seem that Eric was the
Quarryman.

Chris
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On Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:39:49 +0000, Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk>
wrote:

Nick Odell wrote:

The Daily Telegraph has said
That Bert Fry's alter ego's dead.

Wikipedia gave the date,
This year on February eight
Eric Allan passed away
Farewell Keith from "Nuts in May."

Farewell Eric, farewell Bert
Farewell Les from down "The Street"
Don't "Hold the Back Page" any more
Reginald has gone before.

Didn't Roger Sloman play Keith? It seem that Eric was the
Quarryman.

I think the question here is this:

Did I just make a slip-up in my research or am I a subscriber to the
Neil Young school of verse where, if the name of the person you really
want to write about doesn't fit, choose another name that does?

https://youtu.be/W5pNzBqryOE?t=132

Nick
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On Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:37:11 +0000, Nick Odell <nickodell49@yahoo.ca>
wrote:

On Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:39:49 +0000, Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk>
wrote:

Nick Odell wrote:

The Daily Telegraph has said
That Bert Fry's alter ego's dead.

Wikipedia gave the date,
This year on February eight
Eric Allan passed away
Farewell Keith from "Nuts in May."

Farewell Eric, farewell Bert
Farewell Les from down "The Street"
Don't "Hold the Back Page" any more
Reginald has gone before.

Didn't Roger Sloman play Keith? It seem that Eric was the
Quarryman.

I think the question here is this:

Did I just make a slip-up in my research or am I a subscriber to the
Neil Young school of verse where, if the name of the person you really
want to write about doesn't fit, choose another name that does?

(For anybody still struggling with this question the answer is, of
course, (a). Doh!)

N.
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