you, a doctor: *handing me my new born baby* I’m sorry but your wife didn’t make it
me, an intellectual: *handing baby back to him* bring me the one my wife made
This has nothing to do with the joke but ever since I read it I’ve found it hilarious and I’ll take whatever flimsy excuse to share it.
This is an excerpt from a transcribed diary of Thomas Stafford Wollocombe, who served as an officer in the Great War. The diary entry is dated 25th January 1915.
Never a dull moment reading the accounts of these gentlemen.
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