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When Reginald Iolanthe Perrin set out for work on the Thursday morning, he had no intention of calling his mother-in-law a hippopotamus.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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David Nobbs

David Nobbs

Born: March 13, 1935
Died: August 8, 2015 (aged 80)
Bio: David Gordon Nobbs was an English comedy writer, best known for writing the 1970s series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted from his own novels.
Known for:
  1. Going Gently (2000)
  2. The Second Life of Sally Mottram (2014)
  3. Second from Last in the Sack Race (1983)
  4. The complete Pratt (1998)
  5. Cupid's Dart (2007)

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