Recalling the famous statistician's experience at the dinner table, reminds me of the Principal's wife who faithfully attended all her husband's duty dinners and made conversation with a wide range of experts on all subjects. However she had a slight tendency to malapropisms, along with enough sense of humour to confess her lapses.
On one occasion, being told by her neighbour that he was an orthodontist, she apparently spent the rest of the meal asking him questions about birds, which the poor man was at a complete loss to reply to.
CJM
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