MF looks like a bleached version of Jeremy Clarkson in that pic!

....Mr Hepworth could at least have stood up

I remember that story. I also like the Seaside Skullduggery one too. Happy days. I think I have two copies of that yearbook - are they worth owt yet?

No?

"trekking in South America with Tony Hadley"

Sounds like the basis for a Viz comic strip to me!

Rich

Egg Friday! Start the auditions now!!

out from your shirt before coming to work Mr Ellen

... in the background?

No wonder there's always laughing.

...it was Rick Stein (not the plant...)

I know my place

…wrote a short story titled Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, in which a group of intellectuals conspire to create a fictional country called Uqbar. This in turn leads to the imagining of world known as Tlön, whose culture and languages are documented in meticulous detail in a set of encyclopaedias. By the end of the story these ideas have taken root and the real world is in the process of becoming Tlön.

It strikes me that the writers of WORD magazine are in a good position to enact a similar coup on reality. Pop acts come and go in the blink of an eye and the rate of attrition is high. Shoehorning a short-lived, but influential boy band called Egg Friday into recent history shouldn’t be too much of a stretch.

Am I wrong in thinking that the band’s debut single would be a mission statement in the mould of (Everybody) Backstreet’s Back, in which the concept of an ‘Egg Friday’ is given vaguely sexual overtones and sung mainly by the two bad boys of the group.

Delighted to achieve the lofty heights of being mentioned on the Word 'cast - but I didn't say it! It was the esteemed Mr. Drayton who made the Dick Emery comment. As it happens, some time ago I did make a particularly well crafted post on the effects of listening to Bob Marley whilst queuing to buy a sandwich, but it is sadly lost in the depths of the post archives now.

...Martin Frys Nana on the left?

Keegan haircut never looked better. And Mr Ellen must suffer from terrible backache with a posture like that, coathanger or no coathanger.

Hair. All three. In full effect.

Can you please load onto DivShare - we're still stuck with the podcast from 2 weeks ago

He could have least have attempted a Sheffield accent...

ps Billy Gray, Tim Yeo, Tim Healy?

the wonderful Mr Fry in a suit - nice one at that. Some things never change and the world is a better place for that.

Now Mr Hepworth, we need to discuss that button down collar....

It's a ventriloquist's dummy surely and Martin Fry's working it.

That's all three of you by the way...

At the moment of taking such an innocent photograph did they expect to receive such personal (albeit with winks and affection)remarks about their appearance?

of Mr Ellen's belief that it was Harry Worth who said "Hello, honky tonk" are simply enormous.

thank you. Martin Fry is right up there on the pop raconteurs Top 10. More of these please!

(eg Partridge, Tennant, Heaton, Almond, Oakey, Ure...)

Shall we leave it at that?

Three male streakers...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7527930.stm

Quite the best train journey home ever tonight, courtesy of the Fry-cast - many thanks, and when Radio Fry starts broadcasting, I'll be tuning in.

Only disappointment was, decoding Mr Fry's diplomatic comments on the politics of multi-band tours and the forthcoming Steel City Tour, I won't get very far shouting for "Empire State Human" or any other Human League hits from before their Trinnie and Susannah (or whatever their names are) glory days. Surely, for old times sake, Phil could don a lop-sided wig for a Heaven 17/Human League reunion encore or two ...?