THE UK Census, now in progress, takes place every ten years. In 1971 it was run by an Old Blue, Michael Reed (LaA 22-30), and in Punch magazine the humorist and jazzman Miles Kington composed a spoof census form, one section of which ran (more or less) as follows:
THE MAN BEHIND THE CENSUSThis charming recollection of Miles Kington is by Noel de Jongh (ThA 40-49).
(1) Who is Michael Reed?
(2) Wouldn't he be saving us all a great deal of trouble if he asked us now what we're going to be doing in ten years' time?
(3) On the other hand, wouldn't that put him out of a job in ten years' time?
(4) So he's no fool, is he?
(5) If a man came up to you at a party and said "So your mother was born in Tashkent, was she? That's fascinating," would you assume he was Michael Reed?
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