And now for something completely different... "cello scrotum" is hoax!

[Plecostomus]

...so is Guitar Nipple and most likely Flute Anus.

Hunh. Guess I won't be getting my disability checks anymore.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7853564.stm

Elaine Murphy - now Baroness Murphy - dreamt up the painful complaint in the 1970s, sending a report to the British Medical Journal.



She came clean when the hoax resurfaced in the 2008 Christmas edition.
A BMJ spokesman said the inclusion and subsequent debunking of "cello scrotum" had "added to the gaiety of life".

The spoof was inspired by a similar report of a phenomenon called "guitar nipple", which happened when the edge of the guitar was pressed against the breast, causing irritation."

A spokesman for the BMJ said that, 34 years on, no-one faced the sack for failing to spot the implausible condition.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Re: And now for something completely different... "cello scrotum" is h

I shall have to rip up my textbooks effective immediately.





ZR, longstanding sufferer of viola wrist (no, it's not what you think it is)

 

[M'Sharak]

Re: And now for something completely different... "cello scrotum" is h

I am amused by the whole business.