Delightful OR Dr. Who, Poet Laureate, and President of Foreign.

[thebitterguy]

Andrew Rilstone explains his latest post to someone who does not seem to get it:

Obviously, the role of president of Foreign isn't as important as the role of Poet Laureate, and the role of Poet Laureate is much less important than the role of Doctor Who. However, the coincidence of three black men being possibly appointed to jobs which had up to now been done by white men caught my eye, and I thought that it would be amusing to put them side-by-side. It would also have been an opportunity to show that I understand what is meant by odds of 17:7 on, but I forgot.

I understand that the other person who might have become President of Abroad was not a black man or even a white man but a female man. If the female man had become president, then I expect Joanna Lumley would have been appointed Doctor Who and Wendy Cope would have been appointed Poet Laureate and I would have made a very similar joke.

Comments

[rdansky.livejournal.com]

Didn't Lumley briefly appear as the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death?

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

I really like the term "President of Foreign."

[thebitterguy]

She did, far too briefly.