Opinionated Ignorance

[mangerton]

Queers of all types apart, Is there anyone else on this Forum who has never been a teacher ... ?

Meeeee tooooo! Though I was married to one for over twenty years.

[Bryn]

Queers of all types apart, Is there anyone else on this Forum who has never been a teacher ... ?

I almost qualify, having only briefly taught at Sunday School (in my youth, and even then as an atheist) and run a workshop on the AMSTrad PCW for a bunch of lecturers at Middlesex Poly (while a student).

[gurnemanz]

Queers of all types apart, Is there anyone else on this Forum who has never been a teacher ... ?

Not the answer you are looking for, I'm afraid: When I retired a couple of years ago I was somewhat dismayed to ponder the fact that my entire life from the age of 4½ - apart from various holiday and weekend jobs - had consisted of getting up in the morning and going to an educational establishment for the day.

[teamsaint]

never been a teacher.......a good thing for all concerned really !!

[Nick Armstrong]

Never been a teacher (though am the son of two teachers)

[Richard Tarleton]

... I'll see your 'Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes' - and raise you a : Admiral The Hon Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax KCB DSO JP DL [28 August 1880 – 16 October 1967]

This was of course a put-up job, vinteuil - his father was born plain Plunkett but added his wife's triple-barrelled name. I remember my father who was also in the RN expanding on this story. It ought to be straight out of G&S - possibly "he polished up the knocker on the big front door", or even "A very nice girl you'll find her - she may very well pass for 43 in the dusk with the light behind her" - but I'm sure neither applies.

This habit of adding surnames together to produce double-barrelled names is becoming increasingly popular - along with actually christening children "Ned", "Jack" etc. as opposed to these being familiar names for Edward or John.

I like the Spanish system of apellidos.

[Flosshilde]

Queers of all types apart, Is there anyone else on this Forum who has never been a teacher ... ?

Some of my best friends are teachers

[PatrickOD]

... and Brendan Behan -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quare_Fellow

Of course, vinteuil! How could I have forgotten? Brendan could be quare 'n funny at times.

[Nick Armstrong]

Of course, vinteuil! How could I have forgotten? Brendan could be quare 'n funny at times.

Cousin of mine through my maternal grandmother

[amateur51]

Cousin of mine through my maternal grandmother

Here's your rello sticking it to some Englishman, Caliban

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFmRW0Exps8

[vinteuil]

This habit of adding surnames together to produce double-barrelled names is becoming increasingly popular -

... tho' the reverse can also be true - I was born with an unfeasibly complicated name - but my father, either thro' bauhaus puritanism or inverted snobbery lopped most of it off by deed-poll when I was four. (I've never been the same since, sob sob... )

[Nick Armstrong]

... tho' the reverse can also be true - I was born with an unfeasibly complicated name - but my father, either thro' bauhaus puritanism or inverted snobbery lopped most of it off by deed-poll when I was four. (I've never been the same since, sob sob... )

Sorry about your early curtailment, vindecôtes-de-nuit ! I'm sure you've been less-mocked ever since because of your dad's common sense.

I'm astonished that there has been no reference above to Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurley Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

What tossers his family must have been!!!

I hope Sir Reg was not your dad, vindetable????

Remember the Germans banned all that nonsense a couple of years ago, giving rise to this item and a number of comments thereto appended: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8040118.stm

(Fascinating clip, ammy, about BB. Pity the booze dulled the edge...)

[vinteuil]

I'm astonished that there has been no reference above to Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurley Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

... you mean, as in my #43 above?

[Serial_Apologist]

Hyphenated = hi faluted

[Nick Armstrong]

... you mean, as in my #43 above?

Well done, Wilson.... ahem.... quite right! I wondered who would be first to spot that!





ahem.... er... apologies...