Yes, but was there applause?
At 11:18 AM 9/9/2003 +1200, you wrote:
> That's nothing. I've vomited during lectures!
>
> It was back in 1985 and I was giving a lecture series on the Royal Viking
>Star, a luxury cruise ship plying the waters less than placid Tasman Sea
>(Tell me about it!) in a theatre well down in the bowels of the vessel and I
>never did get my sea legs ...
>
> Wystan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ivy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 4:29 a.m.
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Why the silence?
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>Max wrote:
>
>
> >Some 'social scientist' hereabouts once circulated a questionnaire designed
> >to quantify the stresses of academics, and the question I remember was:
> >
> >Do you vomit before each lecture/some lectures/never?
> >
> >Never heard the results.
> Strange, but I went to a conference last week and encountered one of the
>speakers in the ladies'. She was going to throw up, she said. She didn't.
>She told me that evening after the conference ended that she was always
>nervous before a lecture. She never knows what she is going to say until
>she begins. She added that her father, an art lecturer, always vomited
>before his lectures.
>
>
>Yours,
>
>Ivy
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