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Bogus Official is a quick one-minute-twenty thrash which could be filed under “Public Safety Announcements”, a bit like Asparagus Next Left. Probably. Thanks to Paul and EskimoEric

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5 Letters Sent:
  1. Wes

    I’m the chap doing the survey on alley gates

    I’m pretty sure it should be ‘Ally Yates’. I think he was a famous athlete. Thought I’d seen it referenced on the HMHB site but can’t see it now.

    I’ll keep hunting

  2. Ben

    Why would you be doing a survey on an ex-athlete? Don’t hear that at all.

  3. dagenham dave

    Having listened to this a dozen times I can’t hear ‘alley gates’ at all, if anything it sounds like ‘nana yates’…….

  4. Asymptote

    I’ve taken it to be ‘Nana Yeats’. I’d pretend to be doing a survey if I were casing her joint prior to doing a job.

    Which I clearly wasn’t as proper criminals don’t talk like that.

  5. Neil G

    Sounds like Isla Yates to me. Isla Yates is an island belonging to Chile. It’s definitely Yates, not gates.

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