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quick, call me a doctor!
Okay. You're a doctor.
(Thanks, Groucho).
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>And if he always spoke on the same topic, he was a themetic.
But if he were a she with children she would me a mathemetic.
MFR: I did NOT start this.
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... I'm just happy to know that * fungiblity is following me.
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And if what he said makes you sick, he's an emetic.
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Kirk: Metic! Metic! Bones: I'm a doctor, Jim, not a ____.
choose one: a) medic b) vet c) betamimetic d) octogenarian
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...but if you're very particular and examine every detail before you decide where to settle down, shouldn't we call you "meticulous" ?
(And has anyone checked to see whether any of these attempts at humor might, purely by accident of course, have their roots in "metic = resident alien" after all?)
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I doubt it very much. In Greek, metic is metoikos, consisting of the prefix meta (after, with) and oikos (house, household), so relatives would be words in meta (metabolism, metaphysics, etc) and derivatives from oikos such as economics, ecumenical, and ecology.
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