He’s taking sleeping pills because he’s been having nightmares. Therefore, the woman of his dreams is not a pleasant one.
I think it is just that the doc is prescribing him something that will give him more realistic dreams, such as for a dumpy woman his age with short fat hairy legs. Even in his fantasies a hot blonde with long legs is out of his league, given he is not Bernie Ecclestone, 5’2″, whose wife at one time was 6’2″ (albeit not apparently blonde).
You generally only get put in a gown for surgery, not routine checkups. And the eye chart is totally out of place for someone who’d be prescribing sleeping pills and performing surgery. It’s like a melange of bad visual cliches.
“You generally only get put in a gown for surgery, not routine checkups.”
That’s not my experience; I get into a gown at routine checkups roughly ever other time, since my doctor wants to test my knee jerk reflexes, and check the look and feel of my naughty bits (front and rear varieties).
Doesn’t help me parse the joke in this comic, though.
“You generally only get put in a gown for surgery, not routine checkups.”
And for mammograms.
Also, it should be ‘says’ . . . ‘prescription’ is singular.
Good point, Andréa, though maybe what it shows us is that “say” is governed by plural “pills” as the local subject.
” And the eye chart is totally out of place for someone who’d be prescribing sleeping pills”
It’s a GP’s office.
Needing a prescription for sleeping pills means that he has not been sleeping. Not sleeping means he does not have dreams. Therefore he cannot have a “woman of his dreams”.
You’ve got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how can you ever have a dream come true?
A dream that follows an enchanted evening?
Dites-moi, were you carefully taught, or are you just a cockeyed optimist younger than springtime?
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He’s taking sleeping pills because he’s been having nightmares. Therefore, the woman of his dreams is not a pleasant one.
I think it is just that the doc is prescribing him something that will give him more realistic dreams, such as for a dumpy woman his age with short fat hairy legs. Even in his fantasies a hot blonde with long legs is out of his league, given he is not Bernie Ecclestone, 5’2″, whose wife at one time was 6’2″ (albeit not apparently blonde).
You generally only get put in a gown for surgery, not routine checkups. And the eye chart is totally out of place for someone who’d be prescribing sleeping pills and performing surgery. It’s like a melange of bad visual cliches.
“You generally only get put in a gown for surgery, not routine checkups.”
That’s not my experience; I get into a gown at routine checkups roughly ever other time, since my doctor wants to test my knee jerk reflexes, and check the look and feel of my naughty bits (front and rear varieties).
Doesn’t help me parse the joke in this comic, though.
“You generally only get put in a gown for surgery, not routine checkups.”
And for mammograms.
Also, it should be ‘says’ . . . ‘prescription’ is singular.
Good point, Andréa, though maybe what it shows us is that “say” is governed by plural “pills” as the local subject.
” And the eye chart is totally out of place for someone who’d be prescribing sleeping pills”
It’s a GP’s office.
Needing a prescription for sleeping pills means that he has not been sleeping. Not sleeping means he does not have dreams. Therefore he cannot have a “woman of his dreams”.
You’ve got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how can you ever have a dream come true?
A dream that follows an enchanted evening?
Dites-moi, were you carefully taught, or are you just a cockeyed optimist younger than springtime?