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July 20, 2007
Friday
 
 
A story that checks all the boxes
James Waterton (Perth, Australia)  How very odd!

Whilst it is fun to laugh at the French, in the interest of fair and balanced commentary I should add that this civil servant would find numerous employment opportunities in any of the world's government sectors.

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Positively overqualified in the IQ sector to be a parking/smoking/social behaviour/dog warden in the UK. Reminds me of the brilliant Homer Simpson MRI scan.


Posted by Julian Taylor at July 20, 2007 12:04 PM

"Whilst it is fun to laugh at the French"

Vraiment, pour quoi est-ce drôle se moquer du Français?


Posted by WalterBoswell at July 20, 2007 12:31 PM

Actually this gentleman would be a much better person to have in government service than someone with an I.Q. over 75.

Someone with a high (or even normal) I.Q. will be able to think up a lot of new schemes and convince people of their utility.


Posted by Paul Marks at July 20, 2007 02:00 PM

He did ok - He managed to learn to speak fluent French after all ;-)


Posted by Phil A at July 20, 2007 04:10 PM

Actually all this was covered about twenty years ago when it was found that several such people had obtained degrees in mathematics; yes maths not sociology!


Posted by Gordon at July 20, 2007 06:08 PM

Actually all this was covered about twenty years ago when it was found that several such people had obtained degrees in mathematics; yes maths not sociology!


Posted by Gordon at July 20, 2007 06:11 PM

Sorry about the double post but my (French) ADSLis flaky.


Posted by Gordon at July 20, 2007 06:14 PM
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