zen guerrilla
With all the serious comments I thought we might all enjoy a moment of levity.
Prince Charles is visiting an Edinburgh hospital. He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness and greets the first one.
The patient replies: "Fair fa your honest sonsie face, Great Chieftain o the pudding race, Aboon them a ye take yer place, Painch, tripe or thairm, As lang's ma airm."
HRH is confused, so he smiles and moves on to the next patient, who responds:
"Some have meat an canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we have meat and we can eat, So let the Lord be thankit."
Even more confused, the Prince moves on to the next patient, who immediately begins to chant: "Wee sleekit, cowerin timrous beasty, O the panic in thy breasty, Thou needna start awa sae hastie, Wi bickerin brattle..."
Now seriously troubled, Charles turns to the accompanying doctor and asks, "Is this a psychiatric ward?"
"No,"replies the doctor, "This is the serious Burns unit."