Exposing the "Alan Ford" Fraud

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Let's start with the fact that "Alan Ford" is either suffering a mental or personality disorder, or is in the employ of some unknown entity as a chaos agent. 

"Alan Ford" was the name of an Italian comic book which began in 1969. It lampoons western fascination with spy stories. Alan Ford is one of a number of spies working for TNT out of a flower shop in New York. According to wiki, these spies are lazy and incompetent, yet also intelligent and cunning. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Ford_(comics)

I think that fairly summarizes our Mr. Alan Ford. 

Not convinced that there is something fishy about Mr. Ford? No, I wouldn't be on the basis of the above on its own either.

But wait! There's more!

From the Alan Ford wiki

Alan Ford was translated into French, Croatian, Danish, Portuguese and in the 1990s subsequent Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Macedonian and Slovenian editions appeared. The French and Macedonian editions only saw twelve issues before they got dropped due to poor sales. The Portuguese edition only saw about three issues. It was also translated into Albanian in Serbia which saw only five issues before getting dropped, also due to poor sales.

Yugoslavia

A scene from 13th issue "Golf", Vjesnik's translation. Grunf presents his transportation invention to Bob Rock.
Alan Ford achieved great success in SFR Yugoslavia immediately after its 1972 introduction. It survived the dissolution of the country and in 2005 it was still one of the best selling comic books in the area.

Meet "Alan Ford" from Western Australia but who moved to Lutry, Switzerland in 2020. "Alan Ford" has a great interest in the former Yugoslavian territories.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100024705818984&sk=likes_all

Meet "Alan Ford" from Italy, but now resident of Bellinzona, Switzerland.
https://www.facebook.com/alan.ford.921

Meet "Alan Ford" who lives in Basel, Switzerland.
https://www.facebook.com/alan.ford.37669

I take back what I said in the other thread. Switzerland may well have more "Alan Ford"s per capita than Australia.

In one of his posts, Mr. Ford used the expression "I reckon". There is only one part of the world that uses that expression, and in fact the inhabitants use it I reckon about  a 100 times a day each.  Australasia. 

(I stopped using it online when I realzed it is not common anywhere else and my use of it was, understandably, being mocked.

On that basis, I believe "Alan Ford" is the Western Australian" "Alan Ford".

Western Australians are colloquially known as "sandgropers".

This is a sandgroper



However, it would appear that this "Alan Ford" has close ties to Serbia, judging from the contents of his FB page. 

I guess all of this will be fine with John Cotter and others at the EF. It will certainly be fine with the mods. After all, he won't be the first to break the rules by not using their real name.