A conversation posted to flickr by Dunstan Orchard (click on the image to see it), and the ensuing comment-fest, prompted me to recall the following:
So, a famous British Antarctic explorer is due to give a public lecture at Leeds Town Hall. The Mayor of Leeds gets up on the podium and says:
“Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my very great pleasure tonight to welcome the famous Antarctic explorer, Sir Vivian Fucks.”
Sir Vivian, for it is he, tugs on the Mayor’s sleeve:
“Actually it’s Fooks.”
“I know that laddie,” says the Mayor, “but I couldn’t say so in pooblic, now could I?”