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Wednesday's Quote of the Day

09:25 UK time, Wednesday, 28 January 2009

"Perhaps, after 34 years, it's time for us to confess we invented cello scrotum" - Baroness Elaine Murphy, in a letter to the British Medical Journal

In 1974, when she was a young doctor, Baroness Murphy spotted an article in this same journal about guitar nipple, caused by friction from the instrument against said body part. Thinking it sounded like a joke, she and her husband invented cello scrotum - its cause surely self-explanatory - and fired off a letter to the BMJ. Since then their hoax ailment has been referenced in numerous medical articles.

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