an apple a day keeps the pesticides in your body
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As a nurse I thoroughly enjoyed this comic. I've already shown it to an anesthesiologist at work, and I'll make sure to pester every following MD I meet today.
Yet the nurse has tilted backward.
It's not, "an apple a day keeps the doctorr away."
It's supposed to be, "an apple a day keeps the doctorr at bay."
Doctorrs are actually a type of fae creature. They hunger for your bones. But if you offer them an apple, they'll be obliged to accept, and now that they've accepted your hospitality, it would be positively gauche to eat you. And since they feast on bones, they're actually excellent at diagnosing and treating many types of ailments!
It's such a shame how much we've forgotten.
I thought the the Doctor was the guy with the funny telephone box. I mean I thought that he was the original one.
.........why are you adding an extra "r" to "doctor"? Is this a British thing, where you guys just suck at English?
It’s their made up creature
The other day Duolingo told me しゃ is 'sha like in "shop"'. I don't think it's the English who suck at English.
Ah yes, shap
It's about the onion router medical professional.
Kid puts away the apple and then whips out a budgeting calendar for med school.
Nurse runs away screaming.
More like an NCLEX study book.
Lifehack: An apple a day keeps anyone away if you throw it hard enough
God dammit. I was going to make a similar joke! But yours is better...
I don't get the joke.
Apple a day keeps the doctor away. Kid tries to keep the "doctor" away so as to avoid the shot. "Doctor" is actually a nurse and would be unaffected by the apple even if the supposed saying were true
TL;DR kid tries metaphor logic on wrong entity
Weird. It's dentist, in the UK. It didn't click that's what they were alluding to until I read your comment
Originally it was
Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread
And apparently came from this https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/s3-IX/217/153/4476237
Lo others have cited this however it’s decades later
https://archive.org/details/rusticspeechfolk00wriguoft/page/n3/mode/2up
Both of which are UK writers, so Americans 🤢got it right
I'm in the UK, it's definitely "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" here. Maybe you just misheard as a kid?
When I was in primary school someone in my class had to get all their teeth pulled, I have no idea how someone manages to rot their teeth so badly at around 5 years old. I don't really have a point with that story, it just popped into my head and I had to share
Huh. I seeresults for both versions when googling, but it appears it was indeed originally doctor.
What? That doesn't make any sense! Apples are FULL of sugar!!! Oh you Brits. Always doing things backwards. I remember when I visited London, and there I am, driving like normal on the correct side of the road......and there were issues.
I suppose like all metaphors it's not a 1-1 in literal verbiage but more about the meaning it's supposed to represent.
The meaning it's supposed to represent is: Eating healthy food will keep you healthier, and help you get ill less often. You won't need medical treatment as much if you keep yourself healthy.
I wonder why they drive backwards. Is it because they had cars before standardization?
Aah, thanks!
One more child falls for the Apple Industry propaganda once more!
Big Apple. (Pun intended)
DAMN YOU TIM APPLE!!!
I blame Apple's data harvesting and ads division.
Rotten to it's core.