When I was a youngster my parents bought me a pair of braces to hold up my new trousers. Of course these were 'Trousers to grow into' and without such support I would have been running around bare arsed. The braces were blue and had pictures of planets and rockets and, in the box, was a genuine ticket to the Moon.
I know, because it said so.
Somewhere in a landfill site, many many years ago...
Sunday, 28 February 2010
A thought for a Sunday
"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in".
I heard him lecture once, didn't understand a fecking word! But this quote is so apposite...
ReplyDeleteYou lucky bugger. It's through Medawar that people now understand things like the major histocompatibility complex.
ReplyDeleteNot in psychiatry we didn't!
ReplyDelete"the major histocompatibility complex"
ReplyDeleteYea, right - I always had problems with that :-))
It's what tells self from non-self. Think 'immune system' and 'transplant rejection'.
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