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McCartney who many believe died in a car crash in London and was buried in Crouch End. The Paul Is Dead groups are active on Facebook under PID with one group led by Leslie Doll. General viewpoint Macca was replaced by a lookalike & the photos offered do show a few specific contrasts. A while back Macca appeared on The Graham Norton Show on BBC 1 and was in awe of Katy Perry. This hit me as odd as the lady is a relative minnow compared to The Beatles. A film docu. exists on the Paul Is Dead theory maybe available online or on Netflex or youtube.com. DNA tests may be required from Mike McGear McCartney & Heather Mills may have divorced a fraudster! If one applies this to Bob Dylan's supposed motor cycle crash & vanishing maybe we are in The Bard of Avon magical mystery tour landscape. Maybe the gent who did "Blonde On Blonde" is not the man who came back with "John Wesley Harding" as a comeback album? This means the man we have all assumed is Bob Dylan is another Faul McCartney. Anyone with any knowledge of both these men's demise can confirm or debunk the Dylan or McCartney ID? Turn that frown upside down On Monday, 17 October 2016, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hi, Sean. Anything for a fellow Ken McLeod admirer. The "gibberish" thing really is a hot-button issue with me. The OED entry is one of their more extreme cock-ups, not just that they miss an obvious antedating, but it gets worse as it goes on. Hey, in the background of sniping at Kent -- and I really did win that one, ages ago, not that Kent will ever admit it -- I drafted a take-down of the entry on pedlar's French/gibberish in Jonathan Green's now-online Green's Dictionary of Slang. I'm not sure whether that was just before or just after I leapt to your defence, but it was already bouncing around my head. Sometimes I can be nice, other times ... I was once, somewhat to my bemusement, called "a typical list-fascist". Moi? Harmless little moi? But no way am I again going to get sucked into the weird Oxfordian echo-chamber that Kent inhabits when he climbs onto that particular hobby-horse. Still disagree with you over Dylan, but. :-) Best, Robin On 17 October 2016 at 00:21 Sean Carey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Thanks Robin indeed an honour & wishing you well Sean Turn that frown upside down On Sunday, 16 October 2016, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: On 16 October 2016 at 22:00 Sean Carey <[log in to unmask]> wrote: To each their own & clearly "gibberish" is a real tribute. Well used to snide comments & at least you did read the contributions. I prefer those who are honest rather than the silent majority on here. Not only that, Sean, but it's the first term applied in English to characterise the language of thieves and vagabonds (by Palsgrave, translating or glossing French "jargon", which he describes as "pedlar's French or gibberish", in 1530). Later, it's applied to English Argot. So you're in excellent company, along with Piers Egan, W.E.Henley, and David "the Switcher" Haggart -- and of course Thomas Dekker. To name but a few. Thought you might like to know that. :-) Robin (In the unlikely event that someone is tempted to look up the OED to check me out, and as a result, point out that The Bible doesn't say that, all I can do is quote Dirty Harry -- make my day, silly person. :-))) R.)