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Extract from Boy – Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl:
The next day, we were allowed to inspect the appendix itself in a glass bottle. It was a
longish black wormy-looking thing, and I said, “Do I have one of those inside me, Nanny?”
“Everyone has one,” Nanny answered.
“What’s it for?” I asked her.
“God works in mysterious ways,” she said, which was her stock reply whenever she
didn’t know the answer.
“What makes it go bad?” I asked her.
“Toothbrush bristles,” she answered, this time with no hesitation at all.
“Toothbrush bristles?” I cried. “How can toothbrush bristles make your appendix go
bad?” Nanny, who in my eyes was filled with more wisdom than Solomon, replied, “Whenever
a bristle comes out of your toothbrush and you swallow it, it sticks in your appendix and turns
rotten. In the war,” she went on, “the German spies used to sneak box loads of loose-bristled toothbrushes into our shops and millions of our soldiers got appendicitis.”
“Honestly, Nanny?” I cried. “Is that honestly true?”
“I never lie to you, child,” she answered. “So let that be a lesson to you never to use an
old toothbrush.”
For years after that, I used to get nervous whenever I found a toothbrush bristle on
my tongue.
Were all telephones and toothpaste tubes of the world implanted with bombs and slow-acting poisons from then onwards?
The activists against both these types of prejudice are right: #NoJewsNoNews, #NoMuslimsNoNews.
*Ronen Bergman, 'Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations' (2018) can be purchased at: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Kill-First-Targeted-Assassinations/dp/1400069718