Comments on: Missing Link (delayed, again)

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:51:28 +0000

Maybe he doesn’t feel the cold. Some people don’t. My nephew was running around quite happily in a t-shirt during Rocky’s recent run of 1 and 2 degree temperatures…

Made the rest of us cold just looking at him.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:20:51 +0000

Why on earth were you wearing a summer suit in Melbourne in July? Is it because you are a freak?

By: Francis Xavier Holden

Francis Xavier Holden — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:41:43 +0000

I must admit that when I recently presented myself to a (so -called) mate at a posh CBD dining establishment in my light brushed cotton 3 button, narrow legged, cuffless, camel coloured summer suit, he did exclaim “all dressed up like a pox doctors clerk”

By: Niall

Niall — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:42:57 +0000

“dressed up like a pox doctor’s clerk” is rumoured to have derived from circa 1800 England, although many sources credit it as pure Australian. It refers to the nattily dressed young lady who usually presented at the reception counter of a General Practitioner or medico who specialised in the treatment of smallpox. Edward Jenner was a Pox Doctor. The terminology refers to someone dressed to the nines, but usually over-dressed or in bad taste.

As for the Ashley Walsh article, it was his Aunt who egged me on to mentioning the Formula Fords, not his Mum.