I have just realised why they call him PROFESSOR Brian Cox

[freddiemisagreatshag]

Yes I am that thick. There's another one and he's old and doesn't play keyboards.

I was convinced Dr. Seuss was a real (academic) Dr, but I was wrong.

He was real though.

No fucking way is he a PROFESSOR LineRunner

What is the world coming to ?

Look at the You Tube link. Professor Brian Cox does a long hair flick.

The lady singer has a nice crochet suit on.

Probably, if Actor Brian Cox wasn't around PBC would just be called Brian Cox but as the johnny-come-lately of the Brian Cox subset of the human population, he needs "professor"ing so that people don't expect him to talk with a Scottish accent or pretend to eat people.

ProfessorMavisGrind - don't you mean you feel a bit Briany?

Dr Seuss wasn't a doctor? Are you sure?

I note that PBC is just called BC on the infinite monkey cage webpage

presumably because nobody would ever imagine it could be the other one (even without the photos)?

^^ what HellesBelles said

Thankyou nora - I really concentrated when I posted that

Dr Seuss wasn't even called Seuss!

Ponders my lovely. You have mail

Do you reckon Mr. Cox insists on being called Professor.

Bit like Ross from Friends?

Ah... S there's a professor Green who isn't a professor but is in a musical thingy?

That's me totally confused then.

I think it's professor Green I thought was a Professor. I didn't know professor plum Cox wasn't professor Green

You don't have to be a Dr to be a Professor but it helps.

no, Tunip, Brian May is 'just' a doctor...

I've always assumed that the media refer to him as Professor out of justified deference to the fact that he must be BLOODY CLEVER and is a recognised expert in his field so we should PAY ATTENTION! Like they do with Prof Marcus du Sautoy, Prof Richard Dawkins, Prof Mary Beard et al.

Erm Brian cox, do you not like Brian cox?

I like his gentle soothing speech when he talks about sand particles of whatever. He looks kind.

Is Brian May a doctor too??

How'd he fit that in along with guitar strumming and hair maintenance??

The world gets weirder and weirder.......!!

Seuss was his middle name. I looked it up and everything. He started using it at college in the US to write for a magazine that he'd been banned from by the college authorities after he was caugh drinking gin.

I really like him. He seems like a kind, quiet, intelligent, inoffensive bloke. Same as Nigel Slater, who most of MN seem to hate too. Bunch of vipers

I knew Brian May was a Doctor. And he NEVER EVER EVER gets called Doctor Brian May.

Brian May left an unfinished physics PhD to be in Queen, then a few years ago he went back and finished his thesis.

Queen met at university when they doing Astrophysics degrees and PhDs and shit.

Just to throw some more confusion into the mix, I though Hannibal Lecter was played by SIR Anthony Hopkins?

There are lots of academics on the TV, most of them don't refer to themselves by their title - e.g., Doctor, Professor, etc. but people introducing them do.

I like Brian Cox. He's clever, funny and unpretentious. Particularly when verbally sparring with Ross Noble on QI.

BTW, I thought rappers were now MC's?

Freddie was at art college I think Line

I have a confession. It makes the whole thing even worse.

A million billion years ago back when the world was young and I was foolish I did recruitment. For a company which ended up supplying bits to CERN.