Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/11/04/doctor-paid-41000-for-aladdins-lamp-thinks-he-may-have-been-conned.html
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Wait, ALADDIN was the genie all this time?? Mind blown.
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All this time, the lamp was in you!
You really should get a check up more often…
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Gah, man! SPOILERS!
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I thought medical school in India was supposed to be legit.
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It’s like a magical version of a Chuck Palahniuk story.
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spoiler the genie was actually sasha baron cohen doing an interview
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“The Magic was inside of you all along!”
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You know what? If the buyer would give me the paltry sum of $31,000, I will promise to track down the lamp sellers! And to prove my good-will, I’ll also sell you this amazing bridge in NYC for a mere $10,000 (contact me for details and send me your bank info).
It’s sad that people get suckered into these shenanigans, but I have more than one elderly relative where I’ve had to slap their on-line wrist and tell them to turn the google off if they can’t use it properly.
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It may be good medical practice to try to sell your doctor a lamp, just to test their overall intelligence. https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7jyqq/fake-degrees-school-dropouts-unqualified-doctors-india-has-a-problem-of-quacks
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How is this different from church?
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Yeah, but $41,000 is a bit rich, don’t you think? A lamp for $5.000 would be entirely sufficient for that purpose.
You go to prison for doing it.
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It’s part of the magic of money, a $5,000 lamp is less believable than one that costs $41,000.
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Not that I’m a church-goer, but I think a sense of community comes with the church. Here you get two nubes and a rusty piece of garbage.
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Woohoo! The perfect thread for a Scooby Doo screencap!
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Just a funny shaped collection plate.
I hope he has video of the guy dressed up as the genie. The humor value could be worth enough to make him whole.
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I probably shouldn’t laugh at this. But i did.
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