The long boat game

[MrGongGong]

A friend of a friend, who had a PhD, call him Smith, when checking in at the reception of his local surgery for an appointment with his medical practitioner, call him Jones, would say 'Dr Smith for his appointment with Mr Jones'.

Of course medicine is the one place where the more senior you are the less fancy stuff you get
so that when I was in hospital the person who really knew their onions was the guy in his own clothes called Mr not all the ones in the fancy uniforms called Dr etc etc

[kernelbogey]

[...]the guy in his own clothes called Mr[....]

I believe this to be the prerogative of surgeons.

[EdgeleyRob]

Blimey, all I said was that the boat race isn't interesting!

[teamsaint]

Blimey, all I said was that the boat race isn't interesting!

i was actually going to suggest that you stick to Cheshire based sport in future ER..........
surely no such political dynamite there?

[doversoul1]

A friend of a friend, who had a PhD, call him Smith, when checking in at the reception of his local surgery for an appointment with his medical practitioner, call him Jones, would say 'Dr Smith for his appointment with Mr Jones'.

My dentist has now become Doctor S…. I get corrected by the receptionist (Mrs S…) every time I try to make an appointment with Mr S…. No, he hasn’t done a PhDent. It’s an EU convention or some such, I was told.

[MrGongGong]

My dentist has now become Doctor S…. I get corrected by the receptionist (Mrs S…) every time I try to make an appointment with Mr S…. No, he hasn’t done a PhDent. It’s an EU convention or some such, I was told.

Straight Banana ?

[Beef Oven]

I believe this to be the prerogative of surgeons.

Surgeons, mainly at consultant level, are titled Mr or Miss, when they are fully qualified - it's quite a status symbol too.

Dentists have been demoted in the eyes of those in the know - but not in the eyes of jumped up receptionists.

[teamsaint]

personalised number plates are good, too.

[Vile Consort]

Blimey, all I said was that the boat race isn't interesting!

And you were right - we haven't discussed it since page 2.

[MrGongGong]

personalised number plates are good, too.

The motoring equivalent of this T shirt ?

http://www.foulmouthshirts.com/designs/DICK-HEAD450.jpg

[Nick Armstrong]

Blimey, all I said was that the boat race isn't interesting!

Amazing, isn't it!

[teamsaint]

The motoring equivalent of this T shirt ?

http://www.foulmouthshirts.com/designs/DICK-HEAD450.jpg

quite.

I was doing some online application for insurance or something recently, and I had never realised just how many ways their are to be addressed other than good old mr or mrs .

and there ARE a lot of personalised number plates around....i wouldn't object so much if I owned a particularly valuable one.

perhaps I should see if T3AM5A1Nt 1 is available at a decent price.

[MrGongGong]

quite.

I was doing some online application for insurance or something recently, and I had never realised just how many ways their are to be addressed other than good old mr or mrs .

and there ARE a lot of personalised number plates around....i wouldn't object so much if I owned a particularly valuable one.

perhaps I should see if T3AM5A1Nt 1 is available at a decent price.

I used to have a car with Northern Irish plates (which isn't part of the UK for car tax purposes...........) which always looked like someones initials , sadly though I could have flogged the number plate to a gullible egoist for £50 or so it would be more expensive to get a mainland UK replacement ........


now back to the Tories ooops sorry Boat Race

[vinteuil]

now back to the Tories ooops sorry Boat Race

Ed Miliband, Corpus Christi College Oxford
Ed Balls, Keble College Oxford
Yvette Cooper, Balliol College Oxford
Andy Burnham, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge
Stephen Twigg, Balliol College Oxford
Angela Eagle, St John's College Oxford

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[Flosshilde]

I believe this to be the prerogative of surgeons.

And they get very huffy if you call them Doctor.