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[Allibongo]

what is the derivatation of "slack alice"

[saxy_jag]

I think it was simply the made-up name of a 'friend' of the late Larry Grayson:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/local-h istory/famous-people/larry-grayson.shtml

[Allibongo]

Thanks saxy_jag thats what we thought but hoped there was somthing more.

[makemesmile]

He also had a friend called Everhard (spl?) - his stories of Slack Alice and others were very comical

[saxy_jag]

I think most of Larry's 'friends' were people he knew or saw around his home town.

"Ooh! Look at the muck in here!"

[Nether Edge]

Or "shut that door", as well.
He and Les Dawson used overheard gossip as a fount of tears of innocent fun.
How different from the crap that's around now.