Some day in 1979 a bloke in the Middles called Nigel Scorgie (Ha 1978) looked me up and down and said, "You're name is Norman." I was Norman - or Norm - from that day on to almost everyone at school. 'Scorge' (whom I met last year at a reunion having not seen him since he left Haileybury 27 years previously) said later that he gave me the name as he thought I looked like Norman Wisdom, a personage of whom I then knew nothing. I vividly remember the moment when on my first day at University I made the decision on being asked my name that I would choose to be called Luke by my contemporaries, and put childish things away. Norman Wisdom died today. You make up your mind on the similarities - or lack of them.
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