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One leg good, tin leg better
We have been debating how much of your body has to be replaced before you become more machine than man. John Roberts at Federal-Mogul Corporation passes on the information provided by his one-legged friend.
“My colleague John Cameron-Pilkington knows perfectly well that the correct name for a man in his condition is a ‘unidexter’, as coined by Peter Cook in the famous ‘one leg too few’ Tarzan audition sketch with Dudley Moore.
“I wouldn’t say that his tin leg has taken away his humanity, but it has provided him with many anecdotes. He will happily bore the regulars in The Stack, given a glass with any amount of free beer.”
John has knowledge of these stories, having been present for many of them, “while acting as his unpaid bagman, chauffeur and occasional nurse”, especially in airport security.
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