Vote for the Quote
I would like you to help me help you, but I’m really not helping you, you’re just helping me. I think that was a run-on sentence. Whatever.
Every year the College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating class receives a yearbook that encompasses our four years of medical school. Each graduate is allotted one page. This page contains a formal picture, four pictures of one’s choice (I have my four picked already) and a quote.
I need help with my quote. I don’t want anything too serious, because there are going to be about 125 people with quotes along the lines of, “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life,” or “I like helping people.”
To me these quotes are absolutely ridiculous. The only reason why anyone goes to medical school is to help individuals and make the world a better place. A quote like that is too obvious and borders on being insincere.
You see, people also go to med school for the pay, power and prestige that await them as doctors. However, you won’t see a quote like that in this yearbook. Everyone wants to sound sincere and thoughtful, but often that’s not true of their actually personality. They are all good people, just not necessarily as noble as their quote would try to make them appear.
With that being said, I want my quote to be funny or lighthearted. I love medicine. I know everyone I know knows that. I also know everyone I know knows how hard I work and how much I like school and learning. I don’t need a quote to confirm my desire to learn or practice medicine.
So could ya’ll help me pick a quote. I have chosen six finalists. If you think of a good quote not listed, you can suggest that too. If you prefer to vote anonymously, you can do that also. Thank you. Voting will end next Monday (2/20/06).
Thanks again.
1. Laughter is the best medicine. Unless you’re diabetic. Then insulin is the best medicine." Norm MacDonald
2. I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T... Homer J. Simpson
3. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
4. You have your uvulus muscle, connects to your upper dorsimus. It's boring, but it's part of my life. Ron Burgundy
5. Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?" Jack Handy
6. Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind. Jack Handy
Every year the College of Osteopathic Medicine graduating class receives a yearbook that encompasses our four years of medical school. Each graduate is allotted one page. This page contains a formal picture, four pictures of one’s choice (I have my four picked already) and a quote.
I need help with my quote. I don’t want anything too serious, because there are going to be about 125 people with quotes along the lines of, “If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life,” or “I like helping people.”
To me these quotes are absolutely ridiculous. The only reason why anyone goes to medical school is to help individuals and make the world a better place. A quote like that is too obvious and borders on being insincere.
You see, people also go to med school for the pay, power and prestige that await them as doctors. However, you won’t see a quote like that in this yearbook. Everyone wants to sound sincere and thoughtful, but often that’s not true of their actually personality. They are all good people, just not necessarily as noble as their quote would try to make them appear.
With that being said, I want my quote to be funny or lighthearted. I love medicine. I know everyone I know knows that. I also know everyone I know knows how hard I work and how much I like school and learning. I don’t need a quote to confirm my desire to learn or practice medicine.
So could ya’ll help me pick a quote. I have chosen six finalists. If you think of a good quote not listed, you can suggest that too. If you prefer to vote anonymously, you can do that also. Thank you. Voting will end next Monday (2/20/06).
Thanks again.
1. Laughter is the best medicine. Unless you’re diabetic. Then insulin is the best medicine." Norm MacDonald
2. I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T! I mean S-M-A-R-T... Homer J. Simpson
3. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain
4. You have your uvulus muscle, connects to your upper dorsimus. It's boring, but it's part of my life. Ron Burgundy
5. Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?" Jack Handy
6. Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind. Jack Handy
posted by az at 9:49 PM
15 Comments:
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
"You can never go wrong with a Mark Twain quote"
-DJ Freese
Norm MacDonald or Ron Burgundy!
I don't think Brook was paying attention. I told you the quote you will use, and that is all there is to it.
I don't get it, are you supposed to use Mark Twain's quote or DJ's quote about Mark Twain?
I like the Mark Twain one, but I'm also a fan of the Jack Handy one about doctors practicing. I'm basically too indecisive to just pick one.
I am trying to make up my own clever, funny, and mildly amusing quote to throw into the mix.
DJ sounds like an evil dictator. The spawn of Saddam?
I like Norm's quote. Here's a few more that i thought were funny. They may not be appropriate for what you need but for shits and giggles i guess.
"Be suspicious of any doctor who tries to take your temperature with his finger." -Dave Letterman
"The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot." -Jay Leno
"A wonderful Doctor gave this guy 6 months to live. When he couldn't pay his bills, he gave him another 6 months." - Goodfellas
So I went to the Doctor's yesterday. He said, "What appears to be the problem?" I said, "I keep having this dream, night after night, beautiful girls rushing towards me and I keep pushing them away." He said, "How can I help?" I said: "break my arms." - Tommy Cooper
"My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn’t afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays." - Joey Bishop
You're all wrong.
this one is from my dad, via mitch hedberg.
man i went to the doctor the other day. all he did was suck blood out of my neck. never go see dr. acula
i guess he was too shy to post it himself...how cute
That is cute, Otto the coy.
Here are a few of my favorites:
“God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees”
Benjamin Franklin
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.
- George W. Bush
"First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me."
Steve Martin.
"Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold."
Jerry Vale
By the way, when you guys get your yearbooks, do you all gather in the commons and sign witty things on the blank autograph pages??
norm macdonald or ron burgundy...OR you can get crazy and intertwine the two.
OR do mitch's quote
I have changed my position. I vote for the Steve Martin quote. Very funny.
Yeah, the Steve Martin quote is my favorite. I officially give that my vote as well.
Out of your original six quotes, I vote for the Norm McDonald one.
But if you're accepting write-ins, I vote for the Steve Martin quote.
Turd Ferguson.....That's a funny name!
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