Being named Lil is hazardous for your health.
FTR that was actually the Blue Swede cover (which they took from the Jonathan King cover, which is terrible), not Thomas’ original version. Thomas did not oogachaka.
Being named Big isn’t much better.
His name was Deshawn, and he called himself Lil, but I bet no one knew him as Nancy.
I discovered this later, when I went to listen to it in his honour. I still feel it’s appropriate anyway.
Well played. :golf clap:
Robert Hogan, famous for being “that guy” on tv for 50 years dead at 87. The main character in Hogan’s Heroes was also named after him by his friend the producer of the show.
That one went right over my head. Care to clue me in?
It’s a play on the lyrics of the Beatles song “Rocky Raccoon”.
His rival, it seems
Had broken his dreams
By stealing the girl of his fancy
Her name was Magill
And she called herself Lil
But everyone knew her as Nancy
Thanks. I was always more of a Stones fan.
And also a running gag in The Firesign Theatre’s “Nick Danger” comedy albums:
NICK
That tarnished piece of tin is worthless!
ROCKY
Worthless?! Ha! Ha! Ha! (cough cough) Not to Melanie Haber!
NICK
Melanie Haber?
ROCKY
You may remember her as… Audrey Farber?
NICK
Audrey Farber?
ROCKY
Susan Underhill?
NICK
Susan Underhill?
ROCKY
How about… Betty Jo Bialowski! (organ fwah)
NICK
(thinking) Betty Jo Bialowski! I hadn’t heard that name since college. Everyone knew her as Nancy.
F. Lee Bailey has passed the bar at 87.
Disbarred from holding a license to practice life?
But I’m looking for the same old place! 
The link has been broken. Clarence Williams III dead at 81.
Loved him in Tales from the Hood
Martha White dies, sparked ’53 Louisiana capital bus boycott; she was 99.
RIP Miss White; you done good.
Please forgive me if I’m slow in the coming days. My mother just died this morning and I need to deal with the pain.