My God, I think that’s the first time I’ve managed to make Rice Krispies actually come out of my nose.
Headline in the paper: “All nurses to have degrees by 2013.” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What a hoot?! And in a related announcement the Health Minister has said that all nurses are to have a massive chip on their shoulder by…oh wait - they already have.
So they’re going make nursing a ‘degree course’, to be studied a ‘university’, giving it equal status with existing intellectual bastions such as Star Trek Studies, Dressmaking and Form Filling In. I can’t wait.
Told Dweeb Urologist Johnson the hilarious news and he came over all serious. Actually that happened the day he was born, but anyway. He said: “Actually, Jeremy this country has been successfully producing graduate nurses for many years now.”
I was flabbergasted! This country produces nurses? I though we stopped doing that around the time of the Festival of Britain. Don’t we get them all from the Philippines now? (And long may it continue if my dalliance with the hottie on Mandela ward was anything to go by).
By the way, in the native dialect tagalog the word for ‘degree’ is ‘titulo’. But, more importantly, the tagalog for ‘waste of time’ is ‘aksya ng oras’.