by Idiot in Residence
When I ”Googled” the following phrases for UK Web Pages, I got the following number of “hits”:
Artist in Residence 141,000
Writer in Residence 49,600
Poet in Residence 21,600
Composer in Residence 20,000
Scientist in Residence 375
Engineer in Residence 5
Mathematician in Residence 2
Idiot in Residence 0 (well, there’s one now!)
I rest my case! (Prodnose:) “What case?”
Comments encouraged! Dave Mitchell
P.S. Googling the World leads to somewhat less stark results, America is less benighted and even has a few hundred “idiot” hits, many care of Harvard University, where “typically English humour”, under threat in the U.K., maintains a tenacious hold in its new home!
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