The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 273 No 7309 p113
24 July 2004

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Humour in pharmacy

Funny ha-ha, not funny peculiar

From Mr G. Brack, MRPharmS

David Ellerby says that he has been asked “why are you a pharmacist if you’re such a funny bloke?” (PJ, 10 July, p55). Having shared rooms with him in our student days nearly 30 years ago I ought to add that the “funny” here is funny ha-ha rather than funny peculiar.

Nonetheless, he makes a good point. I am wheeled out occasionally as an after-dinner speaker and the general response appears to be that I can sometimes be interesting despite being a pharmacist, rather than because I am a pharmacist.

Maybe the anecdotes we all have could be collected and published to benefit the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Benevolent Fund. In my time as a pharmacist I have been lucky enough to meet some funny colleagues, and only a small percentage were funny peculiar.

Graham Brack
Truro, Cornwall

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