Knees – the weakest link?
Kneeling Man: Oi, God, I just realised I didn’t put quite enough about knees in my new book, Not Very Intelligent Design.
God: Really? I think you said more than enough about everything, quite frankly.
KM: When it comes to knees, I understand why you stuffed up.
God: I don’t stuff up. I may work in mysterious ways, but I don’t stuff up.
KM: Your first four commandments are all about praising you, right?
God: Sort of, ish, yeah…
KM: And that involves us getting down on our knees, right?
God: That’s the traditional way.
KM: Your knees don’t need to be as sturdy as ours because you don’t pray to yourself, do you? Or do you?
God: Of course not.
KM: In fact lying around on soft clouds all day means you hardly use your knees at all. So you see, making us in your own image was a stuff up. Because human knees give a lot of trouble and pain and often need replacing well before the rest of the body gives up.
God: You think I should do another big flood and start over with Humans 2.0?
KM: If you do, make sure you read my book first.
God: I know what’s in your book, Neel. I know everything.
KM: Yeah right, I’m tired. Good night.
God: Night, Neel. Sleep well.
KM: There’s another stuff up. The fact that we need a sleeping pill industry.
God: Are you still talking?
KM: No. I’m trying to sleep.
For those who’ve not yet read it
here’s an excerpt about knees from
Not Very Intelligent Design
KNEES
Knees are a problem. Mainly because they’re just not strong enough for the job. Any kind of load or stress can injure them. Fear can make them tremble, as can upright coitus. Ligaments and cartilage are easily torn. Knees can fracture, swell and freeze. And when they get a bit of age on them they can develop osteoarthritis. They should be built out of a tougher material. Like titanium. Which they probably will be if you have to have them replaced.
Knees are often hit by doctors with small hammers, although nobody’s quite sure why. It is thought that the practice was first seen in a movie called Doctor Doctor in 1943, which was the story of a single woman who was so keen to have a son who was a doctor that she legally changed her surname to Doctor, and then named her first born son Doctor, just to make sure. Unfortunately Doctor Doctor didn’t manage to qualify for medical school and went to work in a hospital as a janitor.
One day there was an emergency, and on hearing someone call doctor, Doctor Doctor looked up and before he could dispel the error, was rushed by the arm to the emergency room. A dazed looking patient was sitting on the edge of a bed and Doctor Doctor, who happened to be carrying a small hammer, was asked to diagnose the patient’s condition.
After a moment of bewildered hesitation, Doctor Doctor commenced the consultation by giving the patient a light tap on each knee. The reflexive kicks caused the nurses to start giggling which encouraged Doctor Doctor to repeat the action. The ensuing hilarity and applause caused more and more people to gather round and Doctor Doctor was carried away in the moment, performing more and more intricate rhythmic tapping routines on the knees of the unfortunate patient, who subsequently required bilateral knee replacement surgery.
After being dismissed by the hospital, Doctor Doctor began to perform the routine as a side show in a travelling circus, before turning the act into a new branch of medicine called Reflexology, thus finally fulfilling his mother’s dreams.
Knees – 3/10 (Too fragile, insufficiently flexible.)
Excerpt from Not Very Intelligent Design – available HERE.