HaHa that reminds of a time when I was in college I threw a sickie and asked my dad to write me a note as to why I had the day off, next morning he gave me an envelope and not bothering to read what he wrote I handed it in, my lecturer was in stitches reading it and passes it to me - this was in the early eighties before swine flu.
Dad had put " please excuse Jacqueline for being absent yesterday, she had a touch of swine flu in fact she was really pig sick of college and took the day off to recuperate"
It was still on the staff room notice board when I left 2 years later!