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[Sqad]

PP, would you please nip back to yesterdays "Funny names" thread as i have posted a relevant issue of importance to me re. Smellie.

[Peter Pedant]

hi sqad
top of the morning to you
one will be ine ones gin palace in th sun
and I am making my way into gloomy Manch for lunch with my inlaws

[Sqad]

Hi! PP.
You mentioned a Dr called Smellie who was a registrar at the hospital in which you were employed. I knew a Dr Smellie who was my senior registrar when i was an HP. Both families became good friends but i lost contact with them. His christian name was Hugh.
Any further information?

[Sqad]

P.S Gin Palace is a thing of the past LOL
I have relocated back to the UK.......not far from you....so it is gloomy here also.

[Peter Pedant]

sorry no - this was 1980 ....
so long ago - ironically intentionally lost to history - to evade the search bots and integrators collecting and collating info ( no - really )

(altho someone has identified me from style alone - asking what happened to the saint in our year, - she opened an ashram - my mother was alos burdened with a saint in the thirties at the Royal Free - quite famous, Blessed elizabeth kornerup. - she almost got her confessor defrocked - which er no - saints dont normally do)

nothing smellie on the register
which means he must have gone off it > 20 y ago
I am on it as 'off it' yeah yeah bullooocks you pay for all this if you are still registered
whereas previously you were scrubbed as my parents were on death.
One of my fathers cronies from POW camp is still there ( aged 110 ) as they dont take an obit in the teleg as evidence of death now. so much for being up to date

[bainbrig]

Slightly off the point, we had a freelancer once, name of Peter Cocks, who used to phone up and every time introduce himself:
“Hello, Peter Co speaking, C-o-c-k, Co.”

To which the obviousresponse was, “Oh, good day Mr Cocks.”

You had to have been there...

[bainbrig]

PP. Forgive the intrusion, but why does a man of your mettle and individualism submit himself to a gloomy Sunday lunch with these in-laws?

BillB

[Sqad]

OK thanks Peter, in 1980 he would have been a Consultant Physician then and had changed his name to Smillie.

[wolf63]

PP
Reassure me that you are not driving to Out-law territory whilst posting on AB.

Sqad - is there to be a feline addition to the Sqad family? It's kitten season.

[Sqad]

wolf...LOL....no chance, we now live in an up market and prestigious block of apartments and pets are not allowed.

[wolf63]

Yet Mrs Sqad is allowed to keep you?!

They can be pretty destructive, young Frankie (14 next week) has chronic kidney disease and asthma. He still manages to tear around the flat and take the paint off any woodwork.

[Tilly2]

I was referred by a Mr Smellie at Addenbrookes Hospital, in the eighties. Is that the same man? He was so lovely.

[Tilly2]

Sorry, referred to...

[Sqad]

Tilly...no....you were referred to a surgeon.
The guy that I knew was a Physician and was, I think, a consultant at Doncaster Royal Infirmary.

A " Mr" is a surgeon in England.

[Tilly2]

Thank you, Squad.

[Tilly2]

Sorry...Sqad. :-)

[Peter Pedant]

// Reassure me that you are not driving to Out-law territory whilst posting on AB. //

non - certainement

a son in law of my extended family looked at my post radiation cataract ( dense ) and said - christ you are not letting him drive are you ? [No I am not]
I said to my brother the dog loves leading me around but I dont know how he knows I cant see - and my brozzair said- because he has seen you walk into things .....

[Peter Pedant]

smellie was a famous obstetrician in the er 1780s I think
Mauriceau smellie veit manoeuvre - breech delivery

these things used to scare the crap out of me - god if you lost the baby in Egypt ( people must have noticed I speak Arabic) - the family would come and get you
as in kill .....

[wolf63]

PP is it a real working dog or just a clever one?

If you get a chance can turn look at my Q regarding the Instructions to Consuls book.

I'm off th bed

[Peter Pedant]

yellow lavvy rescue
we thought it might have failed the training course on food ( they are not meant to eat on duty, I mean it just ate anything)
and became a house dog - and we got it aged 7

god it really perked up when I lost my sight ( partially )

[Peter Pedant]

I h\ve seen the consuls book
and I thought it was correctly priced - a tenner