We recently received this email and poem from a friend of the Freds. All the Freds here at FredQuarters thought you might enjoy it. Dear Fred Society, The day after Halloween, my company had a party. But instead of it being a Day of the Dead Party, the organizers decided to make it a Day of the Fred Party. There were buttons with Fred sayings, Fred film clips playing, etc. My contribution was a poem, extolling not the Freds who get all the glory, but the workaday Freds whose contributions are as unsung as they are unmatched. After reading it at the party, a co-worker suggested I send it to The FRED Society. So I am. I hope you like it and perhaps find it worthy of inclusion on your website or some other publication. Sincerely, Tom Remes Day of the Freds by Tom Remes There are many Freds famous, they are many admired But the greatest proportion of Freds are just tired These aren’t the Freds who belong to the ages Instead these are Freds listed in Yellow Pages These are great Freds, yet we know zilch about them But how in the world would we manage without them? Is it fair that most Freds toil in relative obscurity Like the Fred behind Fred’s Ornamental Security Who you’ll find in Milwaukee just working away Like the folks at Fred’s Market in Susquehanna, PA From the north to the south, all across this great nation We get strength from the likes of Fred’s Backflow and Irrigation From the east to the west, what keeps the economy humming Is the steely resolve of Fred’s Screens and Fred’s Plumbing Fred’s Counters are counting all over Ann Arbor But just try to count every Fred who’s a barber In Providence there’s Fred’s Wayland Square Barber Shop In Richmond Fred’s Hair Design; in Terre Haute Fred’s Hair Shop In LA, there’s Fred’s Tonsorial Salon And from Phoenix to St. Joseph it goes on and on And in Derry, New Hampshire there’s Fred’s Barber there Ain’t that one lucky Fred touching all that Derry hair Now, is there something about Freds foretold in the stars To explain why so many Fred’s work on our cars There’s Fred’s Body Shop, Fred’s Muffler Shop and there’s Fred’s Towing Our cars that don’t go keep a lot of Fred’s going There are so many Fred’s who touch parts of my life Including those Fred’s that touch part of my wife That as I continue I just want to say Thanks to all Fred’s like Fred at Fred’s Mexican Cafe Thanks to Fred’s Cleaners we’ve got shirts that aren’t dirty Thanks to Fred’s Liquors we’ve got hurts that aren’t hurt-y Thanks to Fred’s Café de Paris we can stay out of France Thanks to Fred’s Cold Cuts we can’t fit in our pants Thanks to Fred’s Dollhouse and Miniatures I can afford a Chagall Thanks to Fred’s Deer Processing, I’ve got antlers on the wall Thanks to Fred’s Soccer shop I’ve got a Bayern Munich kit Thanks to Fred’s Casino, I’m still waiting for luck to hit Thanks to Fred’s Formalwear we can get a nice tux Thanks to Fred’s Vacuum Cleaner Hospital, our vac once more sucks Thanks to Fred’s Striping we’ve got stripes where we need’em Thanks to Fred’s Firearms we think we got freedom Whether it’s Fred’s Slab House, or whether it’s Fred’s Furs Freds you’ll find are the best kind of savvy entrepreneurs So if it’s quality and value and dedication that you want You can’t do any better than Fred’s name out in front