A dad walks through a hotel cocktail bar with his young son. The boy is holding a 50 pence piece Suddenly the boy starts choking, going blue in the face.

The dad realizes the boy has swallowed the 50p and starts panicking, shouting for help. A well-dressed, serious-looking man in a blue business suit is sitting in a very comfy armchair with a glass of brandy to hand, reading his MCN. At the sound of the commotion, he looks up, puts his glass down, neatly folds the rag and places it on the table, gets up from his seat and makes his way, unhurried, across the bar.

Reaching the boy, the man carefully takes hold of the boy's testicles and starts to squeeze, gently at first and then ever more firmly. After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the 50p, which the man deftly catches in his free hand.

Releasing the boy, the man puts the coin in his pocket and walks back to his seat without saying a word.

As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no lasting ill effects, the father rushes over to the man and starts thanking him saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before. It was fantastic. Are you a doctor?"


"No," the man replies, "I'm on a the commitee of the A*U and we do that kind of thing every day of the week."