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Show Perhaps Official Wasn't Very Good at History A famous alienist met a certain prominent official. After some discussion on the mentally unsound, un-sound, the official asked: "Doctor, how do you really tell if a person is insane?" "Oh, we merely ask a few ordinary or-dinary questions which ordinary people can answer correctly." "What type of questions?" "Well," replied the alienist, "this sort of thing: Captain Cook made three voyages around the world and died on one of them. Which was it?" "Oh, I say," objected the official, offi-cial, "I'm afraid I've forgotten which one it was." |