The Cardboard Box: Anatomy of a Joke
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Title: The Cardboard Box: Anatomy of a Joke
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Judging by one of my former-nurse mother’s stories, medical students haven’t changed at all.
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“I can understand Miss Cushing’s original belief that it was a disgusting prank, Holmes. Medical students do tend to become calloused about dealing with human body parts.”
Holmes looked at me and cocked one eyebrow.
I smiled, in an ungentlemanly manner. “Some night I may tell you about the mystery of the pensioner’s corpse, the Anatomy professor, and the absinthe.”
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Judging by one of my former-nurse mother’s stories, medical students haven’t changed at all.
***
“I can understand Miss Cushing’s original belief that it was a disgusting prank, Holmes. Medical students do tend to become calloused about dealing with human body parts.”
Holmes looked at me and cocked one eyebrow.
I smiled, in an ungentlemanly manner. “Some night I may tell you about the mystery of the pensioner’s corpse, the Anatomy professor, and the absinthe.”