Showing posts with label names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label names. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Ramsgate Makes A Spectacle Of Itself

My new ophthamologist, Mr R. de Cock, has recommended these little beauties. Wire framed, too, so they're not so prone to spontaneous combustion as the plastic Ben Sherman Margates.

Casting the old glass eye around the doc's reception as I was waiting to see the great man, I spied a filing cabinet labelled 'R. de Cock Letters'. Now I know where all those spam emails promising me a 'lighthouse in an open sea' are coming from!

Friday, September 28, 2007

Sticking Up For The Visually Impaired

I've been having a spot of bother with the old glass eye. During an important production meeting the other day at Nuts TV it fell out and, to my undying shame, bounced across the table only to become lodged in the ample cleavage of one of the luvverly presenters of Fit and Fearless.

And as I don't get up to town as much as I used to, seeing my Harley Street specialist is proving somewhat of a pain. So I asked him if he could recommend a chap in these parts. Sure enough, I got a letter today from my new Kent consultant, a Mr R. de Cock.

Knowing my usual quack possesses a rather aqueous sense of humour, I imagined he was pulling my plonker. But no, apparently Mr R. de Cock is one of the best minces men in the land. He's even had erudite articles published in Eye, the journal of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

Oh well, I'll give him a go I suppose. Let's hope it'll be better than a poke in the proverbial with a, er, sharp stick.

Monday, July 02, 2007

What's In A Name?

Watching the Concert for Diana last night I was reminded that Elton has a peculiar middle name. Well, Elton in his previous incarnation as Reginald Hercules Dwight, that is.

The old grey cells then began working overtime. That Bloody Awful Noel? Middle name Ernest. W H Auden? Wystan Hugh. Hmm, not surprising that he went by his initials.

But which of our local luminaries rejoices in the mezzo moniker Greville?