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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | In this comic, [[Beret Guy]] has discovered how to add public labels to locations on {{w|Google Maps}}. He has used the tool to label his house as a physician's office, and then proceeded to | + | {{incomplete|Created by a NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | In this comic, [[Beret Guy]] has discovered how to add public labels to locations on {{w|Google Maps}}. He has used the tool to label his house as a physician's office, and then proceeded to impersonate a physician, making this another comic with one of his special [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business|businesses]]. | ||
− | + | It seems that Cueball has seen and trusted the label, and has arrived for a medical consultation. He apparently is a walk-in (that is, he does not have appointment), an unheard-of situation for a physician's office in contemporary United States of America that is not an urgent-care facility (for which Beret Guy makes no claim). Thus, Cueball has bought into Beret Guy's bizarre vision, as is typical for Beret Guy comics. | |
− | + | It is soon apparent that Beret Guy has no medical credentials. His "librarian for bones and blood" line in the first panel is nonsensical. The terms he uses while taking Cueball's temperature (second panel) are simplistic. The "little snacks that make you colder" are presumably a medicine to reduce fever, described farcically. In the third panel, he hands Cueball what's supposed to be a medical consent form, but is in fact a ''New York Times'' crossword puzzle. The ''New York Times'' crosswords are designed to get progressively more challenging over the course of each week, but the week starts on Monday. Beret Guy's claim on this subject, at least, is accurate. | |
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− | In the | + | In the fourth panel, Cueball finally questions whether Beret Guy's claim is accurate, and the facts of the situation are revealed - while Beret Guy wheels in a (section of a) {{w|Magnetic resonance imaging}} (MRI) device (usually a feature of a hospital or medical laboratory, not an individual physician's office, and, assembled, far larger/heavier than one person can manage on a dolly) and wonders aloud what it is for. He also comments that he bets it is loud, implying that he does not yet know and that this will be the first time he uses it. It should indeed be loud. Typically many loud noises are made, by both the actuators and from the hardware that controls and produces the magnetic fields, especially from the perspective of one laid inside the device. |
− | In the | + | In the title text, the police cite Beret Guy for impersonating a physician, but Beret Guy returns to Google Maps and relabels his house "Police Headquarters", thus (by implication) making himself Chief of Police to whose authority the officers must submit - by withdrawing the "impersonating a physician" charge. If this works as claimed, it's another of the [[:Category:Strange powers of Beret Guy|strange powers of Beret Guy]], and a substantial one. However, we have only Beret Guy's word that it does. Declaring oneself a physician, in an office of one, is different from declaring oneself the appointed/elected leader of an armed force. If it does work, maybe Beret Guy's next house label is the White House. The implications are nontrivial. |
− | + | Beret Guy's comment that "It's a Monday, so [the crossword]'s not too hard" refers to the observation that | |
− | + | {{w|New York Times crossword puzzles}} increase in difficulty through the week, with the easiest on Monday and hardest on Saturday (there's also a larger Sunday puzzle, but it's in {{w|The New York Times Magazine}} rather than the newspaper, and is designed to be about as hard as a Thursday puzzle). | |
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− | + | A physician imposter was also featured in [[699: Trimester]], while possibly authentic physicians behaving badly appear in [[938: T-Cells]], [[1471: Gut Fauna]], and [[1839: Doctor Visit]]. One can only hope that [[Randall]] doesn't have real-life models for these situations. | |
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− | A physician imposter was also featured in [[699: Trimester]], while possibly authentic physicians behaving badly appear in [[938: T-Cells]], [[1471: Gut Fauna]], and [[1839: Doctor Visit]]. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Beret Guy: Don't worry, it's a Monday, so it's not too hard. | :Beret Guy: Don't worry, it's a Monday, so it's not too hard. | ||
− | :[Cueball is watching as Beret Guy | + | :[Cueball is watching as Beret Guy walks past him rolling a machine labeled "MRI" on a dolly.] |
:Cueball: This '''''is''''' a doctor's office, right? | :Cueball: This '''''is''''' a doctor's office, right? | ||
:Beret Guy: Yeah! It used to be my house, but I found the setting on Google Maps to change it. | :Beret Guy: Yeah! It used to be my house, but I found the setting on Google Maps to change it. | ||
:Beret Guy: Hey, wanna help find out what this box does? I bet it's loud! | :Beret Guy: Hey, wanna help find out what this box does? I bet it's loud! | ||
+ | :Label: MRI | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |