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Now there are many options available for dangerously underweight individuals like yourself. I recommend a slow steady gorging process combined with assal horizontology.
— The Simpsons ‧ 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker wraps overeating and lying around in the language of a formal treatment plan. The invented phrase assal horizontology makes inactivity sound like a technical discipline. The joke comes from solemn authority applied to indulgence, turning the recommendation into a parody of medical advice.
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