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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.
— Wadsworth • Clue
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An editorial 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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