Monday, February 05, 2007

A wee joke

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 ye take yer 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 an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat an we can eat,
So let the Lord be thankit."


Even more confused, and his grin now rictus-like, the PM moves onto the next patient, who immediately begins to chant:

"Wee sleekit, cowerin, timorous beasty,
O the panic in thy breasty,
Thou needna start awa sae hastie,
Wi bickering brattle."


Now seriously troubled, Blair turns to the accompanying doctor and asks

"Is this a psychiatric ward?"

"No," replies the doctor, "this is the serious Burns unit."

3 comments:

Whispering Walls said...

Aarf, aarf!

Gawain Towler said...

I think that Sir Walter Scott copywrote that joke sometime around 1821

Trixy said...

Well, unlike you, I wasn't around in 1821. So ner.