A wind-up toy mouse walks a circular groove in a red clay tray with a yellow ribbon on its tail, against a mint background.

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Dennis Miller

The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The joke imagines people seeking altered experience even after all drugs are removed. Spinning until a supposed vision makes the claim deliberately exaggerated, rather than a reliable account of physiology or divine experience.

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