Deri,

        A very funny story!!
Bobby
>
>I let it be known, due to brain damage of the pain receptors, I
>couldn't feel pain (a lie). After the initial flurry of people
>eager for empirical confirmation of this astounding theory,
>usually resulting in a bloody nose (whilst inwardly chanting the
>soothing mantra "Om, Om, Omy, Oh my that smarts"). My stoic
>efforts appeared to have worked, for half a term - no beatings.
>
>What my brilliant theory had failed to account for was Terry, a
>boy of huge size and strength, but not of intellect. A veritable
>collussus who though slow of thought possessed lightning
>reflexes. A boy, who perhaps for that one time in his life,
>grasped that age old scientific axiom, that to disprove a
>hypothesis sometimes you need to test to destruction. Our
>conversation proceeded as follows:-
>
>    "I heard you feel no pain"
>
>    "That's right - I can't feel anything" Mentally steeling
>    myself for the forthcoming bloody nose.
>
>    "I cut your hand off!!"
>
>The fact I lasted 4 strokes of his metal comb on the back of my
>wrists, owes more to the speed of his reflexes, than any stoicism
>on my part. The blood curdling scream I emitted certainly marked
>the definite end of my "no pain" theorem.
>
>    "I fought yer wuz lying!!"
>
>Cheers,
>
>--
>Deri James