Bleeding Time - The Bleeding Time in Popular Culture

The Bleeding Time in Popular Culture

In the 1954 comedy film Doctor in the House, Sir Lancelot Spratt, the intimidating chief of surgery played by James Robertson Justice is asking instructional questions of his medical students. He asks a young student, who has been distracted by a pretty nurse, what 'the bleeding time' is. The student looks at his watch and answers "ten past ten, sir."

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Famous quotes containing the words bleeding, time, popular and/or culture:

    O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
    That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

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    Ron Taffel (20th century)