On a lighter note, here's the story of a splendid hoax. It makes you wonder how many other medical 'stories' and 'research findings' that end up in the papers are also hoaxes.
I never thought I'd live to see the crosshead 'Scrotal flak'. I'm glad I did.
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A man after my own heart. Or, indeed, scrotum.
ReplyDeleteThought you'd like that one David!
ReplyDelete"The couple said that they had been "dining out" on the hoax for years, but decided to confess after seeing "cello scrotum" referenced in an article last month in the journal."
ReplyDeleteShe should have added "as well as the UK taxpayer"
I see she now lurks in the house of lords, seems to be the in place for jokers at the moment.
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ReplyDeleteLot of scrota around here at the moment, what with the cello lady and Francis's eye-watering revelations yesterday.
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Oh, all right then picture if you will or not, depending upon your inclination, the late sixties, Hertfordshire, an NHS suffering from a surfeit of sawbones from the Antipodes, not very well apprenticed I hasten to add. This chap who's name I cannot reveal visited one of these quacks, with a cough, cough upon his wotsit.
ReplyDeleteThe quack looked nonplussed, quite easy for an Aussie, "I'll have to look it up he said" "prick", thought this chap and came away with prescriptions for 180 pills to be taken over a 7 day period, I, I mean he knows, he counted them. After 7 days the offending object still remained in situ.
Doesn't scrotum sound odd spoken with an Australian accent.
Well it's surely bad luck on the next person who goes to the doctor with a genuine case of swollen scrotum. Imagine staggering in only to be told, after much tittering, that you are the victim of a hoax and sent away. A good way of saving on NHS costs, now one thinks of it. "Heart attack this morning? Hahaha. Nothing wrong with you, you've been taken in by a hoaxer. Next!"
ReplyDeleteTalking of scrotum's, the Scottish Mickey Mouse parliament had its Fawlty Towers budget knocked back by the opposing numpties today, here's the good part, snake oil Salmond said he would resign if it was. Anyone care to wager he won't.
ReplyDeleteTaking a gender-drift from Scrota for a moment, can anybody forget Tommy Beecham's pungent comment to a lady 'cellist during a rehearsal - 'Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it'.
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