Thursday, July 07, 2005

Re: FW: time for a funny


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> Subject: FW: time for a funny
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> Jim and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital.
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> One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool,
> Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the
> pool and stayed there. Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She
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> swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out.
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> When the Director of Nursing became aware of Edna's heroic act,
> she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as
> she now considered her to be mentally stable.
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> When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have good
> news and bad news.
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> The good news is you're being discharged; since you were able to
> rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life
> of another patient, I have concluded that your act displays
> sound-mindedness.
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> The bad news is that Jim, the patient you saved, hung himself in his
> bathroom
> with the belt to his robe right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but
> he's died."
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> Edna replied, "He didn't hang himself. I put him there to dry.
> How soon can I go home?"
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