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- From: kchestn@eos.ncsu.edu (CHESTNUTT)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.monty-python
- Subject: Re: Spot the looney
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.145726.10505@ncsu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 14:57:26 GMT
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- In article <ssipila.722508416@vipunen.hut.fi>, ssipila@vipunen.hut.fi (Seppo K Sipil{) writes:
- |> Newsgroups: alt.fan.monty-python
- |> Path: taco!rock!concert!uvaarpa!caen!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!vipunen.hut.fi!ssipila
- |> From: ssipila@vipunen.hut.fi (Seppo K Sipil{)
- |> Subject: Spot the looney
- |> Message-ID: <ssipila.722508416@vipunen.hut.fi>
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- |> Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- |> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 03:46:56 EST
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- |> Episode twenty-something of the second season of "Monty Python's
- |> Flying Circus" was shown on TV here in Finland a couple of weeks ago.
- |> It ended with a view of a sign attached to a fence: "HOSPITAL -- sorry
- |> no cheques".
- |>
- |> So, in the early 70's this kind of thing was a Monty Python joke.
- |> Nowadays, I've heard, you might not be taken into a hospital without
- |> the proper health insurance (in the USA). Spot the looney! Is it me or
- |> the Western Civilization (tm)?
- |>
- Of course a hospital in the USA will take in people who don't have any
- money. The hospital will simply remove a major limb such as an arm or leg
- in place of money. Arms and legs are worth quite a lot in the USA
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- chestnutt aka arms dealer esquire
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