Tony Blair in an Edinburgh hospital joke

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

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> Now seriously troubled (always thought so), Blair turns to the
> accompanying doctor and asks, "Is this a psychiatric ward?" 
> 
> "No," replies the doctor, "this is the serious Burns unit." 
> 
> 
> Anyway, I hope even one person (besides me) got a laugh out of this
> joke. I'll bet JKR would like it.
> 
> Carol, wishing she could sign off in Scots dialect and hoping she
> won't need to explain the punchline
> 
> *"Rictus" is evidently a British expression for having a gaping mouth,
> hence the tickling charm, "Rictussempra" (Geoff or someone will
> correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure)

Geoff:
I'm not so sure about a laugh... I groaned at the punch line. It's
almost as bad as some of the jokes I used to inflict on my pupils.
:-)

The rumbling you can hear is probably Robbie turning in his grave...

"Rictus" is defined in my dictionary as having a fixed grin - which 
rather describes how Tony often seems to appear in public.

And, of course, Edinburgh being "Auld Reekie" and also the current 
home of a well-known writer who holds the fate of a certain young 
guy called Harry in her hands, reminds me of Grimmauld Place.