Garry Richardson interview

[vinteuil]

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... it appears they are a dying breed -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3022709/Garys-heading-extinction-28-babies-700-000-2013.html

In this matter (as in so many others) I've been wrong for most of my life. There was a 'Gary' at my infant school - but in his case it was an abbreviated form of his actual name, Gabriel. I had therefore assumed (for the next sixty years... ) that all Garys were in fact Gabriels. I now learn that it's a name in its own right -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_(given_name)

(from which I learn that Gary Cooper was really a marmalade).

[french frank]

That's outrageous...in fact I'd go as far as to say it's downright immolar. I hope they got a good canine from the beaks when they were found out.

By gum! That's a good 'un!

[johncorrigan]

By gum! That's a good 'un!

We could unveil a plaque in memory, ff.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We could unveil a plaque in memory, ff.

[french frank]

We could unveil a plaque in memory, ff.

Tar-tar, jc. Get your coat.

[oddoneout]

Tar-tar, jc. Get your coat.

If you're quick you'll be in time to catch the dentibus.

[Jonathan]

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... it appears they are a dying breed -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3022709/Garys-heading-extinction-28-babies-700-000-2013.html

In this matter (as in so many others) I've been wrong for most of my life. There was a 'Gary' at my infant school - but in his case it was an abbreviated form of his actual name, Gabriel. I had therefore assumed (for the next sixty years... ) that all Garys were in fact Gabriels. I now learn that it's a name in its own right -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_(given_name)

(from which I learn that Gary Cooper was really a marmalade).

Yes, I have a colleague called Gary and he also said it was a much less popular name these days.

[Richard Tarleton]

Yes, I have a colleague called Gary and he also said it was a much less popular name these days.

I saw the great Gary Graffman in 1972, playing the Rachmaninov Rhapsody. There's a classical guitarist/composer/teacher called Gary Ryan, only the fourth guitarist to be made FRCM (after Segovia, Bream and Williams), whose best-known composition is called Birds Flew over the Spire.