At a very expensive English hospital a new young nurse from Dublin had just started her rounds. Running late a surgeon raced in having just finished 18 holes at Wentworth. Together the doctor and nurse went into the first ward where an old man was tucked up in bed. Taking a quick look, the doctor said, "Nurse, this patient has died!" The old man in the bed said. "I'm all right. I'm not dead!" The nurse look at him and said, "Be quiet man. The doctor always knows best!" At the height of the early 1980's drought in Western Queensland, two friends bought a lottery ticket. One was a local garage owner and the other was a cattle farmer. Things had been tough for them both and they hoped that a win in the lottery would help. To their great surprise they won first prize of $200,000. A local journalist interviewed them for the weekly paper. "What are you going to do with your winnings?" he asked the garage owner. "Well", came the reply, "I've always wanted to travel. So my wife and I are going to take a first class trip around the world. London, Paris, Rome and New York. When we get home I'll have enough left for a new car." The journalist then asked the farmer about what he intended to do with his winnings. The farmer though for a minute or two and then replied, "I dunno. I think I'll just keep on farming until it's all gone!"
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