MISTAKES
THE DOCTOR AND THE EDITOR
The following is again going tlie rounds:—-
14* an editor; makes a mistake, he h;ts to apologise for it, hut if the doctor makes a mistake he buries it.
Again,. if an editor makes one there is a lawsuit, swearing, and, the smell of sulphur, but if the doctor makes one there is a funeral,, cut /lowers,, and a smell of varnish.
A doctor can use a word a yard long without knowing what it means, but if the editor uses it lie has to spell it.
r.f a doctor goes to see another man's wife, he charges for the visit, but if the editor goes to sec another man's wife he gets: a charge of buckshot.,
When a doctor gets drunk it's a case of. "overcome by heat," and if he. dies it is heart trouble. When an editor doesn't walk too steadily, it's a ease, of too much booze, and if he dies it's a case of delirum tremens.
Any old, college can make a doctor. You can't make an editor., he has to be born.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 26, 23 November 1943, Page 5
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184MISTAKES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 26, 23 November 1943, Page 5
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