Archer and the TB Test

Yesterday morning I woke to Jeffrey Archer, British author, former MP, and convicted perjurer espousing The Gospel According to Judas (his own fictionalized version anyway, written in conjunction with biblical scholar Francis J. Moloney) to Matt Laurer on The Today Show.

Later that morning I find out that it's advisable that I take a tuberculosis test (having recently come in contact with someone with the ailment). Great!

All of a sudden I'm transported back about 20 years, to Wellington School (my secondary school, circa 1986), that fateful day queuing outside the "san," readying myself for a Heaf Test and BCG vaccination, continually moving to the end of the line to put off the injection for as long as possible (which on the positive side, meant that I'd be late for German).

The summer prior I had been presented with my "prize" (for coming first in my year in Latin) by none other than Jeffrey Archer, a school alum. This was just before the 1987 libel case against the Daily Star in which he perjured himself, leading to his imprisonment and suspension from both the Conservative Party and the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Interestingly enough in his younger days Archer reportedly told people he was an "old boy" of the more prestigious Wellington Collage rather than the less well known Wellington School. Wouldn't that be an indication of things to come?