Dodgy Doctorates

By Neil Reynard 24-10-20

For the past few years now I have liked the idea of being a doctor. Not so much a medical doctor - though I was named after my mother’s gynaecologist - but a doctor of science! Maybe a Theoretical Physicist or an Astrophysicist like the guitar legend Brian May.

During these last four or so years I have realised that I actually have at least a half decent amount of brains, in my head that is, not hidden in jars in various places hoping the police won’t find them. The odd person has even told me I’d make a good philosopher! But this could just be people taking the….

Anyway, after approaching at least one of my rather clever friends (Leslie, Tony and Sandra) who write qualifications and deliver training courses - I can’t remember which friend exactly as I used to smoke copious amounts of a green plant some of you may have heard of - and asking them if they could write me a doctorate that I could work through in a few months or a year or so, I didn’t get the YES I was looking for. Would you believe it?

Apparently - I could be wrong on this thanks to the afore mentioned green plant - all doctorates take year upon year of study to attain.

So after plenty of thought about my future, careful consideration and weighing up the pros and cons I ultimately decided, ‘sod it, I really can’t be bothered’. And with that I had the further thought ‘sod it some more, I’m just gonna call my self a doctor anyway’. As long as people know I’m not serious and don’t go posing as a real doctor in A and E, it’s no crime. Right?

Why shouldn’t I or anyone occasionally be able to call themselves doctors, as long as it’s just for fun.

There must be loads of highly intelligent people out there who, for whatever reason, haven’t had a chance to prove just how capable they are of amazing contributions to the scientific world.

So here is a chance for you or anyone you know to become a doctor! Not an official doctor, in fact a very much unofficial doctor, but still with the letters dr before your name. And in this time of pandemic, lets face it, we all look a little more like doctors with our face accessories on anyway!

To get your doctorate, simply do a write up about your thoughts and observations about absolutely anything to do with our world or our universe. As long as it’s not total nonsense, you’ll get your picture put into the hall of fame!

Just email your work and a photo of yourself along with the title you wish to have next to your photo. This title can be anything you want starting with the letters dr. It doesn’t have to be your real name and can be something totally made up just for fun.

You can even send made up jokes! As long as it took some thought to create your work it’s fine with me.

Send your creation, your photo and preferred title to: justbebusy@gmail.com

Thanks, Neil.

To claim your unofficial doctorate and appear in the hall of fame just send anything that shows your intelligence along with a photo of yourself and the Dr title you want next to your photo to

justbebusy@gmail.com

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