The Best of Men2012

[the committee is discussing Dr Guttmann's proposals for a national spinal injuries games]

Dr. Ludwig Guttmann:
What is it that so offends you?

Dr. Cowan:
Yes, that's the word. It offends me, it *does*. This is a hospital. We have respectable people here, visiting sick relatives. We have children visiting their parents.

Dr. Ludwig Guttmann:
I don't understand.

Dr. Cowan:
It's not pleasant. I'm sorry, but it's not. People in wheelchairs, withered limbs, damaged bodies.

Dr. Ludwig Guttmann:
Ah, now I understand. We hide them away. Is this it? Is this what you say? Corporal Bowen with the bitter humour and the wife who loves him? Corporal James with his longing to teach history. David Dakers who plays the baboon like an angel.

[everyone sn*ggers at Guttman's mistaken use of "baboon" instead of "bassoon"]

Dr. Ludwig Guttmann:
And William Heath who has fought longer and harder to survive than you will ever have to. *We* are ashamed of *them*?

Dr. Cowan:
I'm not saying *that*.

Dr. Ludwig Guttmann:
No, you are not honest enough to say it.