What's in a name?

[alllowercase]

The question about what we call our PD prompted me to remember a discussion recently about t-shirt logos. How's about an Emu for our logo? After all, the Emu has a history of battling publicly with Mr P .......

Adrian

[ronn]

As I recall, that attack by the Emu was on Cyril Parkinson of "Parkinson's Law" fame, ( work expands to take up time available). You have bolstered one side of the "what do we call it" argument by pointing out the need to separate Parkinson's disease from Parkinson's law.

[Court in reply to ronn]

Hi Ron

We had a ventriloquist called Rod Hull who had an Emu puppet. He was very popular as the emu was so unpredictable. He was on a chat show hosted by Michael Parkinson, if I remember correctly, when he suddenly attacked him resulting in a very funny tussle on the floor. Though not sure how funny Michael found the episode.

Sorry, don't know why I felt the need to share this. Apologies to allowercase. Incidentally I never use the word Disease.

[jillannf6]

hi sue

good to see u posting again

i remember the EMU episode and i won an EMU in a raffle

(he went ot the local hospital)

lol JIll

[alllowercase]

court got the right one

[PatV]

One Parkinson's group uses the penguin because of the walk , I guess.

[honeycombe3]

Hi Sue,

Right as usual. Much as I loved Emu I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end. I think the penguin model is quite appropriate. Sometimes I waddle like a duck or those toys from my (long ago) childhood where an animal was put on the table top with a weighted string hung over the end which made the 'animal' walk to the edge. I really am a living museum piece. Who remembers the laundry 'copper', a cylinder heated by a flame below to provide hot water for the weekly wash? Or the 'dolly blue' bag to keep whites white, the ridged washboard for rubbing farics or the wooden rollered mangle to squeeze out the water? This performance took place outside the back door in the yard of our terraced house in Manchester (UK). And you know they really were happy days!!

[ronn]

My apologies to allowercase and to Court. Had the right emu but the wrong Parkinson. I remember seeing the show, but that was many brain cells ago.

Have a great day.

[alllowercase]

one reason i suggested emu was that he got the better of Parkinson very publicly, and, as your replies show, he did it in a very memorable way. memorable worldwide.

The emu is a formidable oponent. First time i came home from Brasil, i was on the 8 hour bus ride down to Sao Paulo for my flight. picture a sunny september afternoon, sugar cane growing beside the road (to make alcohol for motor fuel, not booze), and you see movement beside the road, about a mile ahead. it took nearly 20 minutes to catch up with the 5 escaped emus.

surreal or what?

[Pete-1 in reply to alllowercase]

Rather sadly Rod Hull (Emu's controller) died a few years ago trying to re-affix a TV aerial to the exterior of his house. This if I remember correctly was during a thunder storm. Anyway he died as a result of falling off a ladder.

[Pete-1 in reply to Pete-1]

Just checked Rod Hul's entry in wikipedia to find my version rather inaccurate. Th efolloeing paragraph is copied from wikipedia.

On 17 March 1999, Hull climbed onto the roof of his house in Winchelsea, near Rye, to adjust his television aerial during the Champions League football match between Internazionale and Manchester United. In his attempt to improve reception, he slipped from the roof and fell through an adjoining greenhouse. The 63-year-old entertainer suffered a severe skull fracture and chest injuries. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Conquest Hospital in Hastings. Following an inquest, the East Sussex Coroner, Alan Craze, recorded a verdict of accidental death

[honeycombe3]

How sad.

[alllowercase]

yes, sad, but Michael Parkinson was a chat show host who was brutal to his guests, so the emu getting the better of him probably left Rod Hull a much better remembered ventriloquist than if he had not done the business. And i remember, at the time many of Parkinson's victim guests went public on how much they enjoyed him getting his comeuppance

[alllowercase]

and i still think that with the correct snappy few words and the emu, it would be a good logo for us