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> -----Original Message-----
> From: underscore-bounces at under-score.org.uk
> [mailto:underscore-bounces at under-score.org.uk]On Behalf Of Matt Kane
> Sent: 06 October 2006 10:34
> To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [_] claiming £5 from people and telling them they are, in
> fact, somebody else
>
>
>
> On 6 Oct 2006, at 10:25, Raymond Brooks wrote:
>
> > what is this all about, then? here are some claimants from posts past:
> >
> > Tim Beadle to Dave Abraham, 38/03/06: You are Richard Littlejohn
> > and I claim my £5 :D
> > Dave Hodgkinson to Tim Beadle, 19/09/06: You are David Brent and I
> > claim my £5.
> > Jim Fanning to Dave Hodgkinson, 05/10/06: you are Iain Harrison and
> > I claim my five pounds
> >
> > where does this come from? please explain!
>
> It's from competitions run by newspapers back in the day, where
> readers would have to approach the paper's agent and say something
> like "You are Lobby Lud and I claim my £5". It's similar to the thing
> run by local radio stations where they have to say a certain phrase
> when called by the DJ in orer to win some prize.

Yeah, when I was a kid it was someone called "Chalky White" (its WAS the
seventies)
IIRC The competition was run by one of the Red Tops and this guy would visit
various  seaside resorts waiting to be spotted. I think inflation had raised
it to a tenner by then.

Jim