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    You Couldn’t Make It Up

    Jan 18, 2022 2 minutes
    CARTOON BY Guto Dias

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    During a short stay in hospital recently, I heard the old lady in the bed next to mine say to the nurse: “Nurse, my dinner is cold.”

    To which the nurse replied, “It should be—it’s a salad.”

    ROBERT PERRY, via email

    He said that

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