Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Light Hearted Moments

I have been making good use of the latter part of the half term week and done as much reading as one can in-between essential chores and a little 'free' time.  I have to admit the 12 hour stint was a little ridiculous as it took some time before my eyes were able to properly focus again.  However, within the schedule of hard-core reading I have been able to observe a large amount of words that took me back to what was a much talked about and very funny television advert in the 1980's.  For those of you nearer to my age, this reflection may bring a smile to your face as it did with mine whilst you're passionately and desperately trying to get to grips with paradigm. 

There used to be a series of television commercials advertising the services of BT which starred Maureen Lipman as an extremely expressive and proud grandmother, who for the purpose of the advert was always on the phone to her friends boasting about her grandson. One in particular from the BT series is when she is on the phone to her grandson and to her disappointment he has evidently failed his exams, however, hanging onto the notion that he's passed his sociology the tag line to the scenario which had great comedy timing was Maureen Lipman declaring how clever he was because............."he's got an ology".   Admittedly it is one of those situations where you had to be there to appreciate the humour, but after all my 'ology' reading and getting to grips with meanings and definitions I thought I would share an 'ology' moment with you. (I hope the link works......my first experience of sharing links and no ology to show for it)!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK5-2fPyCjA

Let's hope that we too get an 'ology' at the end of all this and someone (most likely our nearest and dearest) can boast on their phones about us!

1 comment:

  1. Hi Amanda,
    Yes I remember that advert. I have written a list of ologies to look up and try to understand! also la few 'etics' in that list too!

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