WHO to release difference between a cold and a head cold

The World Health Organisation is to release information later this week on the actual difference between a cold and a "head cold". The term head cold is used almost exclusively by journalists to denote a medical condition which presumably either for works requiring a marginally greater word count, or possibly filling in the syllables in a haiku.

While we at Laughsend can't begin to imagine what will be in the forthcoming release, speculation is rife that there is either no difference at all, or a great deal of difference. We interviewed two doctors to gain their valuable expertise.

Doctor A told us: "Personally I think a head cold is just a cold. I don't see the need for the extra word since it is essentially meaningless; it is, for instance, very rare for me to get a cold in my knees."

Doctor B disagreed: "The differentiation between a cold and a head cold is chalk and cheese, especially since we agree that the word cheese has more letters in it. But the difference are multiple and varied, ranging from a small amount of difference, all the way up to a massive amount of difference between the two. Effectively by dismissing the differences we're allowing the language of Socrates to be horrendously undermined by the hoi-polloi, and - just like aggression in that illegal Iraq war - that will not stand. The war was illegal, and we had no right to invade another country."

Whatever the differences are, and however the argument progresses, we look forward to the ultimate explanation of the difference between a cold and head cold.