Tony Blair is lying in bed in hospital with an oxygen mask over his mouth. A young auxiliary nurse arrives to sponge his face and hands.

"Nurse," he mumbles from behind the mask, "Are my testicles black?"

Embarrassed the young nurse replies, "I don't know Mr. Blair, I'm only here to wash your face and hands."

He struggles again to ask, "Nurse, Are my testicles black?"

Again the nurse replies, "I can't tell. I'm only here to wash your face and hands."

The ward sister was passing and saw old Tone getting a little distraught so marched over to enquire what was wrong.

"Sister," he mumbled, "Are my testicles black?"

Being a nurse of long-standing, the sister was undaunted. She whipped back the bedclothes, pulled down his pyjama bottoms, moved his tiny penis out of the way, had a right good rummage, pulled up the pyjamas, replaced the bedclothes and announced, "Nothing wrong with them!!!"

At this Tony pulled off his oxygen mask and asked again, "Thank you for that but are my test results back?”