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True Dough

(17,312 posts) Fri Aug 9, 2019, 04:39 PM Aug 2019

If you don't laugh at this, you're Hippocrates...

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If you don't laugh at this, you're Hippocrates... (Original Post) True Dough Aug 2019 OP

Clever! empedocles Aug 2019 #1

If there was a fitting DUer to be the first to respond to this thread True Dough Aug 2019 #2

Yes. Thank you empedocles Aug 2019 #3

That was a great one. It keeps coming back to me for another look. empedocles Aug 2019 #12

Fantastic! I glad it brought you such joy True Dough Aug 2019 #13

Ha ha. My daughter may not laugh. She is in the health field, empedocles Aug 2019 #14

I didn't laugh....its against my oath. /NT sdfernando Aug 2019 #4

If you refuse to laugh True Dough Aug 2019 #5

bite you tongue! /nt sdfernando Aug 2019 #6

A veterinarian? A horse doctor? keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #7

In my experience abqtommy Aug 2019 #8

I collect groans like trophies for my showcase! True Dough Aug 2019 #9

Too bad all his human patients came down with... ProudLib72 Aug 2019 #10

Off to the glue factory with you, ProudLib! True Dough Aug 2019 #11

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

1. Clever!

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 04:41 PM

Aug 2019

True Dough

(17,312 posts)

2. If there was a fitting DUer to be the first to respond to this thread

Reply to empedocles (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 04:55 PM

Aug 2019

it would have to be you, empedocles!

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

3. Yes. Thank you

Reply to True Dough (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 05:23 PM

Aug 2019

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

12. That was a great one. It keeps coming back to me for another look.

Reply to True Dough (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 10, 2019, 06:48 AM

Aug 2019

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

(17,312 posts)

13. Fantastic! I glad it brought you such joy

Reply to empedocles (Reply #12)

Sat Aug 10, 2019, 07:04 AM

Aug 2019

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,

Reply to True Dough (Reply #13)

Sat Aug 10, 2019, 08:23 AM

Aug 2019

nutritionist/functional medicine - one of those not laughing Hippocratic types.

sdfernando

(4,935 posts)

4. I didn't laugh....its against my oath. /NT

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Fri Aug 9, 2019, 06:04 PM

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True Dough

(17,312 posts)

5. If you refuse to laugh

Reply to sdfernando (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 06:06 PM

Aug 2019

you're at risk of becoming a depressor.

sdfernando

(4,935 posts)

6. bite you tongue! /nt

Reply to True Dough (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 06:21 PM

Aug 2019

keithbvadu2

(36,835 posts)

7. A veterinarian? A horse doctor?

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 08:20 PM

Aug 2019

A veterinarian? A horse doctor?

Nyuck! Nyuck! Nyuck!

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

8. In my experience

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 08:32 PM

Aug 2019

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

(17,312 posts)

9. I collect groans like trophies for my showcase!

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Fri Aug 9, 2019, 08:39 PM

Aug 2019

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)

10. Too bad all his human patients came down with...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 11:07 PM

Aug 2019

hoof and mouth disease.

True Dough

(17,312 posts)

11. Off to the glue factory with you, ProudLib!

Reply to ProudLib72 (Reply #10)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 11:17 PM

Aug 2019

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