A small purple armchair has a gold crown on its back and a notepad on its seat, with plants beside it.

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Professor Plum, you were once a professor of psychiatry specializing in helping paranoid and homicidal lunatics suffering from delusions of grandeur.

— Clue • 1985

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a mock-formal way of summing up someone's résumé, and it's funny because of the job description. Helping paranoid, homicidal people with delusions of grandeur is stacked with alarming adjectives, delivered in a calm, courteous tone that makes it sound like an ordinary career.

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