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About John Peel
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Forty Firemen John Turner needs help - please do your best to pour cool water on his fevered imagination... For years and years I have been haunted by hearing on the old Home Service a news item beginning "Forty French firemen fighting forest fires..." I cannot remember the rest of the sentence. I think the firemen were cut off while fighting a fire above the Rivera and had to be rescued. The point is these six 'f's were not contrived. As the years go by I have never been able to equal them let alone exceed them. Any first letter would do. Sometimes I get quite excited as the initial letter starts to be repeated but it always peters out too soon. It has to be a genuine sentence with no artificial attempts at alliteration. Could you appeal for a successor please, then I could at last forget those blessed Forty French Firemen.  | |
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