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If you don't laugh at this, you're Hippocrates... (Original Post)
True Dough
Aug 2019
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Clever!
True Dough
(17,313 posts)2. If there was a fitting DUer to be the first to respond to this thread
it would have to be you, empedocles!
empedocles
(15,751 posts)3. Yes. Thank you
empedocles
(15,751 posts)12. That was a great one. It keeps coming back to me for another look.
Humor seems to work well when it hits close to home. Beyond my more obvious antiquarian interests - my daughter works for CDC.
Thanks again.
True Dough
(17,313 posts)13. Fantastic! I glad it brought you such joy
I hope you share it with your daughter.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)14. Ha ha. My daughter may not laugh. She is in the health field,
nutritionist/functional medicine - one of those not laughing Hippocratic types.
sdfernando
(4,937 posts)4. I didn't laugh....its against my oath. /NT
True Dough
(17,313 posts)5. If you refuse to laugh
you're at risk of becoming a depressor.
sdfernando
(4,937 posts)6. bite you tongue! /nt
keithbvadu2
(36,853 posts)7. A veterinarian? A horse doctor?
A veterinarian? A horse doctor?
Nyuck! Nyuck! Nyuck!
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)8. In my experience
the proper response to pun is a groan, not a laugh and I adhered to that with this one. The louder the groan, the better the pun!
True Dough
(17,313 posts)9. I collect groans like trophies for my showcase!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)10. Too bad all his human patients came down with...
hoof and mouth disease.
True Dough
(17,313 posts)11. Off to the glue factory with you, ProudLib!