>Can I follow up Nick Fosters mail on the topic of 'famous patients',
>with 'funny' names, can I post a warning?
>
>
>> Subject: Re: Famous patients
>
>> We had an Indian cloak room attendent patient registered at the practice
>> called Mahat Macoat, and another patient who worked in the same place
>> from Scotland called Angus Macoatup.
>
>When I started as a lecturer I was obliged to pass round a sheet each
>lecture, on which the students wrote their names. There was the
>usual crop of Mickey Mice etc, and someone who turned up from time to
>time with bad handwriting, and a name that looked a bit like
>'Schweizer Pullar'; clearly a weak joke, so I just ignored it. The
>the exams came, and this character turmed up and took the exams.
>Check your references!!
>
>Mike Wells
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>Professor Mike Wells
>Department of Physics, The University of Leeds
>Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
>Phone: 0113-233-2339 E-Mail [log in to unmask]
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>A now distinguished friend of mine in the public health field told me that
when he was on a Masters course in public Heath at Harvard he and he his
colleagues decided that the course administrator was unnecessarily officious
considering the maturity of the students. So they took to signing up 'A
Sverdlov' regularly on the attendance boards. And when the ad ministrator
began to ask questions he got answers such 'I saw him yesterday, isn't he
here today' , or, 'yes, he was here earlier' until he became quite upset by
his inabiity to locate the invisible apparent free-luncher.
Hugh de G
Senior Lurker.
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