There was a Frenchman who was involved in a severe car accident. His body was damaged to such an extent that the doctors and surgeons could only save one lung, a piece of brain, and his vocal chords.

Because they had managed such a miracle as to keep this man alive, and sane, and healthy over all the time it took for recovery, his first trip out of the hospital was a big press event.

Unfortunately, the nurse wheeling him around slipped as they crossed a bridge, and he fell out of the wheelchair, into the river that runs through Paris. As the spectators gasped and all the media rushed forward, the man bobbed to the surface and was heard to remark “It’s great to be lung and in Seine.”