European Tribune - Comments - France is not in decline and the last thing it needs is 'reform'

I just checked myself out on Wikipedia, where it turns out I have a huge list to choose from. I could be several flavours of US or UK politician, a footballer, a cricketer, a bowls player or an ice-hockey player, a Welsh punk writer or a British horror writer (neither of them are me), a supercentenerian, a wrestler, a minister of religion (no surprise), an archeologist, an actor, a bishop, a murderer, a pirate, and, would you believe, an astrologer.

But the Jethro Tull keyboardist, real name John Evans, took the stage name John Evan. Strangely the Wikipedia entry doesn't mention a gender change. They say "he" runs a law firm... While the bio on the Jethro Tull site says "he" runs a building construction company.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 02:14:58 AM EST
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Re: Afew is not in decline (none / 1)

This subthread is why this site is unbeatable. The stuff you learn ...

by desmoulins (gsb6@lycos.com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 02:57:00 AM EST
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I think you should take cricketer ... (none / 0)

... the fitness/conditioning standards of modern footballers is a bit extreme. Nothing like the glory days of George Best.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 03:20:23 AM EST
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It was David Palmer -> Dee Palmer in 2004 I believe (in case have not already found it.)

by PeWi on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 04:48:49 AM EST
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Ah well, it was fun while it lasted. JT weren't really a band I paid a lot of attention to, so one keyboard player was much like another.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 05:15:36 AM EST
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