So this farmer was out mending a fence one day when he had a mishap, so he went to see the town doctor. As he was getting his hand stitched up, the doctor asked how he’d happened to slip so badly with fence wire.
“I was startled by a Post Turtle,” the farmer said.
Now the doctor had practiced in the country for a long, long time, doing home visits and all, but even so he’d never heard of a Post Turtle. So of course he asked.
“It’s a turtle on top of a fence post,” said the farmer, not cracking a smile. “In nature, turtles aren’t often to be found atop fence posts. In fact, you see Post Turtles most frequently in the world of politics.”
The doctor looked confused. “Politics?” He asked. “What has a turtle on a fence post got to do with the world of politics?”
The farmer explained. “Well, it’s like this. That Post Turtle. You know he didn’t get up there by himself. He doesn’t belong there, and you wonder who put him there. He has no idea what to do while he’s up there, and having been unnaturally elevated beyond his ability to function, he’s never going to get anything done while he is there. You just want to help the poor bugger get down, and you can’t help but wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place.”
In unrelated news, a lady called Samantha Dixon has been appointed as the UK’s building safety minister, following the recent government reshuffle triggered by Angela Rayner’s resignation earlier this month.
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