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Ernie Royal Crown Pilots Jimmy Jewel

Colonel Chinstrap Marshall Royal General Motors

How is she? Sadly, he's no longer with us. http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/letters/feature.php/18769/gag-name

Warrington Minge Dupree Bolton The Famous Eccles

The Hi-Lo's Shere Hite Mother Superior

Yeah, I really can't stomach late-period Heinlein at all. He really kind of went off the rails. I'd agree with your opinion that most of the later books were garbage when they came out. Even Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is half-and-half for me, as the story is interlarded with a lot of lecturing from the author, of the know-it-all, hectoring, obnoxious-libertarian-asshole mode already familiar from Starship Troopers. Still, I have a sentimental attachment to many of his juveniles, and even managed to get my older son into some of them. Well, you got me interested and I'm finding it a good read:

Philip Glass Boosey & Hawkes Noggin the Nog

Thanks, Bev, for bringing this one to my attention, though a new formula/syndrome is emerging: Stitt + Fresh Sound = pain in the wallet

Edith Wharton Henry James Elmore James

Coco Chanel Tony Kofi Ice T

Jolly Waggoner Ron Carter Shaft

Art Blakey with the Jazz Messengers (CBS twofer) Still can't get enough of that band: "Cranky Spanky", "Stanley's Stiff Chickens", etc!

That would be £1.90 then ! I recall that the sour-faced woman who served me made enquiries in the back of the store before releasing it at the marked price!! (Incidentally, it's one hell of a record. IMHO the McLean/Hardman/Dockery/De Brest Messengers just can't be beaten for FIRE!)

Teeny Boppers Harry the Bopper (aka Barry Hopper) Skip James

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, New York 1957 (Jazz Anthology, Musidisc) Bought in Paris in 1980. Bears a sticker: "19F Prix Maximum"!

Gert & Daisy Daisy & Tom Tom 1960

Art Blakey, Drum Suite (Philips) Love the MacLean/Hardman/Dockery/De Brest Messengers!

Berkshire Hunt Cup John Birks Gillespie Dick Berk

Not much has got across the Pennines. A brief heavy spell yesterday refilled 1 and a bit water butts. But apart from that it's been overcast, threatened rain but kept dry in eastern parts. Was in London yesterday. Seemed like I'd gone to another climate zone! Sunny, about 5-7C warmer, humid, parched rain-starved grass. Seemed like the contrast you normally find when going over to France.

Duke of Wellington Bobby Shew The Hon. Algernon Lacey

If you've got the original UK hardback, check out the credit on the cover art. A young chap called Ian Dury ! 1967 hardback, but unfortunately now without dust jacket.

Saw him sweeping up his front yard once - he said 'hello'. Didn't know who it was at the time. Visiting the place next door (very modest terrace) ! One of those "famous for fifteen minutes" people!

Matthew Gee Douglas Jay Simon Dee

Vincent Wong Gogh The Sino-Dutch Artist Gough Whitlow The Australian Finger Whitlow Wyatt Earp The Cowboy MP

Patricia Highsmith Alice Topping Allen Lowe