World renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Henry Higgins, faced a tough dilemma when one of his closest friends was diagnosed with advanced brain disease. In order to save him Higgins determined that a brain transplant was the only available option. He put out calls to every major hospital in the world, alerting them to his need for a suitable donor. Two days later he received a call from a hospital in Barcelona, notifying him that a suitable brain had been harvested from an unfortunate accident victim. Excited, Higgins requested that the organ be packed in an ice container and shipped to him right away.

 

              A courier in Barcelona was handed the container and instructed to deliver it to the airport, where a private jet was waiting. On his way to the airport the courier got hungry and decided to make a brief stop at a hot dog vendor's street cart. He pulled his car over and cautiously took the container with him so as not to leave it out of his protection. The vendor handed the courier a hot dog and the courier put the container down for a second so he could reach into his pocket for the cash. Just then, another customer approached the cart and, not seeing the container, inadvertently kicked it. The force caused the container lid to fly open and, to the horror of the onlookers, the brain and ice poured out and went sliding off the curb, into a gutter, and toward an open drainpipe. Before anyone could do anything the brain disappeared down that drainpipe.

 

              The courier immediately got on his cell phone, called the hospital, and explained what had happened. The chief of the Barcelona hospital, disturbed by this turn of events, asked his assistant how he was going to explain this to Dr. Higgins? The assistant suggested that, instead of breaking the bad news to Dr. Higgins by phone, they hire one of those singing telegram people to do it, and hopefully soften the blow.

 

              An hour later, there was a knock at Dr. Higgins' office door. He opened it, and there stood a young woman in singing telegram garb. She introduced herself as Liz Doolittle from The You'll Never Guess What Happened Singing Telegram Co. and said "I have a message for you from Barcelona Hospital". She then went into her singing dance routine and belted out............

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       ♫ "The brain in Spain fell plainly down the drain" ♫