Talk:699: Trimester

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You don't need to call up the Nobel committee, just check Wikipedia. Also, how did Cueball manage to infiltrate the hospital? Benjaminikuta (talk) 18:29, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Did you know you can just EDIT Wikipedia? 141.101.104.20 13:05, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
This website and wikipedia are both based off MediaWiki; also that is kind of the point of wikipedia. Beanie (talk) 13:56, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
Checking Wikipedia would be just that, checking. Going straight to the source (the Nobel committee) would be double checking... Mumiemonstret (talk) 11:10, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
You could just check the official Nobel Prize listing of Nobel laureates in physiology or medicine which isn't as easily edited as Wikipedia. Or check archived news articles for who won in the year Cueball claimed. And the Nobel Prize committee does have a listed telephone to literally call them as the comic mentioned. There are plenty of ways to verify it. The joke wasn't that it CAN'T be checked, but that people DON'T check. 172.71.166.216 16:12, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

If he were simply pranking Megan as a doctor, he would be checking her patellar reflexes, or looking into her eyes with an ophthalmoscope, or having her say Ahhhh while he looked into her throat with a tongue depressor. The fact that he has chosen to pretend to be an Obstetrician/Gynecologist suggests some ulterior motives. 108.162.219.171 04:27, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

You can prank someone outside of general care. This could just be a prank of opportunity. flewk (talk) 04:27, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

The use of the word "trimester" does not really add medical authority. It is basically the lab coat combined with the clinic setting. Most people understand what a trimester is without any medical training. "Trimester" is not medical jargon. -- Flewk (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)