Who is that?

So, in many places, especially in Asia, people have a hard time pronouncing "Jerry."   (Jelly,  Jury,  Jully, Jewry....)

Fortunately re-runs of the "Tom and Jerry" cartoon are pretty much universal and over the years I have figured out that when I am introducing myself at the beginning of a lecture or speech, I tell everyone that my name is pronounced Jerry as in "Tom and Jerry" the cartoon, and everyone gets it.

I was out in the sticks training a group of rural doctors in East Timor a few weeks ago. It was an official thing, so the district health director had to come in to properly open the course and come back to close the course when we finished some days later. 

We were wrapping it all up. I had given my obligatory closing speech, thanking everyone and then it was the director's turn.  He spoke in Tetun, using English for proper names or the occasional technical term. I was wondering why half of the participants were trying really, really hard not to laugh and wondering who this "Dr. Tomjerry" was that he kept thanking.