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Recent events hereabouts have reminded me of an old comedy sketch by Ronnie Barker, of the Two Ronnies:
The Two Ronnies was not exactly known for highbrow humour — they leaned more towards vaudevillian, variety-show stuff with a certain amount of satire. But there's a line there: "Diagnosis is very like diarrhoea only you get it in your gnosis instead of in your rhoea." And the pronunciation is precise; there's no question that he's saying "gnosis".
And too often, lately, we've been finding that a diagnosis does indeed involve "knowledge" coming out as an uncontrolled spew of feculent sludge.
The Two Ronnies was not exactly known for highbrow humour — they leaned more towards vaudevillian, variety-show stuff with a certain amount of satire. But there's a line there: "Diagnosis is very like diarrhoea only you get it in your gnosis instead of in your rhoea." And the pronunciation is precise; there's no question that he's saying "gnosis".
And too often, lately, we've been finding that a diagnosis does indeed involve "knowledge" coming out as an uncontrolled spew of feculent sludge.
