Astronomy Look-alikes, No. 23
Since my Head of School is currently on his way to a boondoggle in Mexico I thought it might be safe to point out, as many have done to me, that he bears more than a passing resemblance to Swiss Tony from the Fast Show. Doing astronomy, you see, is very like making love to a beautiful woman…
Walter Gear
Swiss Tony
In the Dark 
May 11, 2010 at 1:41 pm
I was hoping for contributions more in the Swiss Tony style, e.g.
Doing astronomy, you see, is very much like making love to a beautiful woman: first you make sure your equipment is ready, then you raise it to maximum elevation, make a careful choice of aperture …
etc.
May 11, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Cosmologists keep getting it wrong?
May 11, 2010 at 5:51 pm
“Doing astronomy, you see, is very like making love to a beautiful woman…”
… in the olden days only men were allowed to do it, but that’s changed.
May 11, 2010 at 6:42 pm
..lots of people want to do it, but only a few get paid for it.
May 14, 2010 at 11:44 am
Swiss Tony? Nonsense! it’s Radovan Karadjic:
May 18, 2010 at 9:54 pm
He also looks not unlike a certain resident of Craggy Island …
June 22, 2010 at 5:52 pm
[…] but they also had a quick tour of the buildings and a briefing by our Head of School, Swiss Tony Walter Gear. I’m told one of the Council members asked “Excuse me, but what is Planck?”. […]