This Is Mighty Strange,

[Svejk]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11449835/Lawrence-Hogben-D-Day-meteorologist-obituary.html
don't you think?(the citizenship bit)

[1ozzy]

Are you hanging out to say "G'day" to them all Svejk.
They are a bunch of pleasant people who don't get "narkey" with each other.
Bit of fun and pleasantry in my eyes.

[Svejk]

I don't venture in there very often, oz. I was an altar boy.

[1ozzy]

You would be safe Svejk. I don't think any of them are or have been priests. ;-)

[Svejk]

Boaty must be having more puter trouble. Why don't you start one, oz?

[1ozzy]

Why don't you Svejk?
Could be a first in the history of AB.
I already have done so, a couple of times.
"Go Svejk, Go Svejk, Go Svejk!!!
To use an Americanism "I'm rooting for ya"

[Svejk]

A) I'm not very sociable.
B) I appear to be monopolizing the board as it is.

[1ozzy]

:-) ,,,,hope you join in now you grumpy old es haitch one tee ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

usual spectrum of post-imperial gormlessness

My father met Laurence Hogben on a liner in Sep 1936 when he was on his way to Oxford and my father to a London medical school. They had both studied anthropology. Both sailing from South Africa to Liverpool and became friendly in the two weeks or so the voyage took. and then they lost contact

Hogben - the name- or this one's name rhymed with Hoburn as in viaduct wrote a foreword in a book called Loom of Language by Frank Bodmer ( 1944)

so I was particularly surprised to read that he was really/also a mathematician meterologist who was big on D day.

My father in 1958 naturalised from Sarth Efrican to British nationality with no difficulty whatsoever. Swear an oath and fill out a form. I remember him doing it.

so yes I was very very surprised to hear that a New Zealander had not clocked up enough air miles to do the same.

very surprised indeed - but I thought I was the only one who had noticed.