On a visit to a hospital the Prince of Wales goes up to a bed and asks the patient how he’s doing. The patient whispers “We sleekit cowerin, timourous beastie”. At the next bed, the patient answers, “A man’s a man for a’ that”. Puzzled, the Prince of Wales moves on to the next bed and the patient says, “My luve is like a red red rose”.
The royal visitor then asks the nurse “What’s going on? - “It’s the Burns unit sir”, she says.
Such is the fame of Robert Burns that people get that joke all across the English speaking world – and further.
