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Re: I am not Dan Norris

Peter — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:12:14 -0000

A surgery is when a member of the public can talk to their parliamentary representative about an issue. British MPs often put aside a day where people can books a time and have face to face talks with their representative about a national/local or personal grievance. Good site btw!

Re: I am not Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:34:20 -0000

Thanks, Peter.

Re: I am not Dan Norris

Amardeep Sidhu — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:13:26 -0000

LOL...the title is interesting "I am not Dan Norris" ;)

Re: I am not Dan Norris

ittichai — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:45:28 -0000

Jake,
You're right. It is interesting - from a simple idea turning into business.

http://www.youtube.com/user...
http://www.googlemethemovie...

Re: I am not Dan Norris

Jake — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:41:58 -0000

Reminded me of Google Me the Movie over on YouTube, interesting stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: I am not Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:15:44 -0000

That's hilarious. Steve Norris is my uncle--lives in Chicagoland ;). I doubt he'd get the reference if I started calling him "Shagger".

Re: I am not Dan Norris

jason arneil — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:05:25 -0000

Hi Dan,

It could be worse. There is a tory politician called Steve Norris who has the fantastic nickname of "shagger" norris.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

jason.

Re: I am not Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:24:22 -0000

It was indeed something of a test to see if a) anyone reads here and b) those that start reading actually make it to the end of a relatively short post. You passed both tests, congratulations! You win...my gratitude, better luck next time.

Re: I am not Dan Norris

bex — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:18:14 -0000

why bother, when you can rely on the teeming millions who read your blog ;-)

Re: I am not Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:09:21 -0000

Oh, dictionary, right. Guess I could have checked that, but my personal law of laziness required me to do as little as possible. Thanks for the reference!

Re: I am not Dan Norris

Dan Norris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:08:17 -0000

It got you to read and comment, so it worked! :) Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see Dan and you and the other UK Oracle friends for UKOUG 2009 (I hope).

Re: I am not Dan Norris

bex — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:42:14 -0000

yarp... "surgeries" means "office hours" in the UK:

http://www.thefreedictionar...

for some reason, its only used for doctors, dentists, vets, and members of parliament...

Re: I am not Dan Norris

Doug Burns — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:07:42 -0000

>> I’m still not exactly sure what surgeries are, but I can only presume that they’re something like office hours and there are no doctors involved.

That's spot on. Although MPs spend the bulk of their time down in London, in the House of Commons (or bars!), they (or at least all of my previous MPs) also have set hours when their constituents can visit them to raise problems and look for assistance. I've had at least one MP who was usually ridiculed by the media and other MPs, but was a trusted voice in and advocate for our community. Rare, perhaps, but it left an impression on me.

I do take issue with the title of this post, though ;-)