Yesterday daid and I were chatting and somehow the subject of the NHS came up. He'd forgotten exactly what it stood for, but that it was national health service... or system and we'd both forgotten exactly what the "S" stood for.
He suggested that the "S" stood for "sabretooth" and so this happened:
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| Obviously a candy striper sabretooth is the answer to everything. |
Note that this has very little to do with the actual NHS apart from the acronym. Although I haven't experienced it, I don't think the actual NHS provides "service with a scowl" and it would be nice if all countries were sensible enough to have a single payer health system that includes such "luxuries" as dental and optical care (unlike, say, Canada). However, I suspect that a sabretooth cat would not have the best bedside manner and so the tagline was born.
Also, I know that the candy stripe uniform was a thing in the US (in the '40s, even), but it was the first outfit that sprang to mind.
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