John Doe 20.07.07

Robbie and I were talking about rail journeys last night. We were discussing a person who has a ticket from Waterloo to Southampton but actually wanted to get off at Eastleigh. Robbie eventually announced what I had already worked out - that not all trains to Eastleigh went to Southampton. After thinking out loud for a further few minutes he said she could catch any train to Eastleigh because in theory she could change for Southampton. I asked if he was sure that it was a permitted route, but he fell about laughing and said I was turning into Barry Doe. At first I couldn't think who he was talking about so I told him that I only knew of John Doe and Jane Doe. Then I realised that Robbie was referring to the old man who writes the boring bits (that I don't usually read) in Rail. Actually I'm not being fair, what he writes is interesting in a narrow sort of way but it makes my brain hurt - and Robbie already does that, so I don't need any extra pain! Anyway, back to Robbie, he was being unusually dense and he had no idea who John Doe was, even when I told him that I must have learned about him by watching too much Quincey he still didn't know it was the term for an unidentified American corpse.