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"Mom had fallen and couldn't get up. Alas the old cliché in play.

Update:  Today, when I recited my beautifully well crafted tongue-in-cheek-double-entantre to mom, she was a bit taken back by the word "alas".  So we  tried to find a substitute. But alas, everything we tried seemed to ruin the tone and funny factor...

After several minutes of working with it we came up with a slight change in tense and punctuation that we could both agree on... and then we proceeded to giggle...a lot!

Mom had fallen and couldn't get up; alas the old cliche' still stands. 

 (go ahead...giggle away, you have permission)