An English doctor is being shown around a Scottish hospital. At the end of his visit, he is shown into a ward with a number of patients who show no obvious signs of injury. He goes to examine the first patient he sees, and the man proclaims:

“Fair fa’ yer honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin’ race!”

The English doctor, somewhat taken aback, goes to the next patient, and immediately the patient launches into:

“Some hae meat and canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it.”

This continues with the next patient:

“Wee sleekit cow’rin tim’rous beastie,
O what a panic’s in thy breastie!”

“Well,” the English doctor mutters to his Scottish colleague, “I see you saved the psychiatric ward for the last.”

“Oh no,” the Scottish doctor corrected him, “this is the serious Burns unit.”

Of course, I could be wrong


3 Responses to “Shamelessly stolen from The Mad Priest (who snitched it from the BBC)”

  1. 1 Mark Byron 

    I will have to share this one with Eileen; my English-major bride will get a hoot out of it.

    I’ll share another Burns joke. The English Lit prof is working on mnemonics and asks the students to remember Robert Burns by picturing a British cop on fire-Bobby Burns.

    A wise-asel student chimes in-”How can you tell it isn’t Robert Browning?”

  2. 2 Mark Byron 

    I just showed it to Eileen after she got home from work. Almost ROFL.

  3. 3 BD 

    ar arrr arrrrr!
    I passed yours on too.:^)

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