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Next time tell him
"I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night"
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve (Post 604169)

A coach telling an umpire he has "pro" experience is a bit like a patient telling his cardiologist, "hey, I've had 5-way bypass surgery, so I know more about it than you!"

No. It would be like the patient saying "I went to medical school."

The doc, who wonders how well the patient did, looks up his record (let's pretend that it's possible), and finds the patient only went for a semester. Not only that, the patient flunked all but one of his classes.