http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54247 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:30:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=54247#post-156612 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:41:37 +0000 Tripod 156612@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As the first recipient of a double hand transplant, Bob Fisher waved - frantically - at the journalists and photographers assembled at yesterday’s press reception. He praised the surgeon, the hospital staff, and the donors who had made the groundbreaking, eight-hour operation possible, before trying to strangle himself.</p> <p>“One hand came from a mime artist who, tragically, failed to escape from an imaginary box”, said Bob, as he attempted to walk into a strong wind. “The other hand came from a semaphore signaller in the Royal Engineers, who was half-way through a message asking the enemy to stop firing when he was felled by a sniper’s bullet”.</p> <p>Bob was hoping to resume work as a roofer; failing that he thought he might apply for a job as a tic-tac man at a race-course. What he wanted most of all was “a quiet life”, he said, as he left the building and hailed two cabs... </p>