Hysterix

When we were kids we used to love Asterix and Obelix - bashing Romans and superhuman strength were definitely on my cool list! I was at a stage of reading when I would just skip over words that looked a bit difficult to tackle and pick the story up again on the other side, and I did the same with the Asterix books we had, especially with the names...Vitalstatistix, Geriatrix, Fullyautomatix etc all looked like words definitely out of my scope. It wasn't until years later - reading 'Asterix and the Normans' during a productive "study period" in the school library in First Year - that I noticed the Normans had names like Telegraf, Nescaf and Timeanahalf and discovered that all the names were jokes! Been there all along! Tada! ...it seemed like the cleverest thing in the world at the time - Hysterix!