On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:53:10 +0000 (GMT) Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
> > [1] In the commonwealth (where I live), it's rude to just call someone
> > of Phil's callibre by his bare name. I may be wrong but if my
> > primary school teacher (r.i.p) would wake up today, I'd be in for
> > a thorough bashing if he overhead me calling Philip just Philip!
> I'm flattered :-) but I've never been particularly bothered about
> nominative formality or titles or parading my qualifications. So just
> call me Phil(ip) if you want to.
for those of us in the US, "Dr. Phil" brings on visions of really bad talk
shows on daytime TV.
shudder,
richard
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