[SOC] PM visits hospital

[Bill Cunningham]

Best seen here in a long time.  thanks

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Lachow" <llachow@yahoo.com>
To: "SOC AList" <SOC@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:05 AM
Subject: [SOC] PM visits hospital


> Tony Blair is visiting an Edinburgh hospital. He 
> enters a ward full of
> patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness and
> 
> greets one. The
> patient replies:
>  "Fair fa your honest sonsie face,
>  Great chieftain o' the puddin race,
>  Aboon them a you take your place,
>  Painch, tripe or thairm,
>  As langs my airm."
>  Blair is confused, so he just grins and moves on to 
> the next patient.
>  The patient responds:
>  "Some hae meat and canna eat,
>  And some wad eat that want it,
>  But we hae meat and we can eat,
>  So let the Lord be thankit."
>  Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the
> 
> PM moves on to
>  the next patient, who immediately begins to chant: 
> "We sleekit,
> cowerin,  timrous beasty, Thou needna start awa sae
> hastie, Wi bickering brattle."  Now seriously 
> troubled, Blair turns to
> the accompanying doctor and asks  "What kind of
> facility is this? A mental ward?"
>  "No", replies the doctor. "This is the serious Burns 
> unit."
> 
> 
> 
> 
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