# A Pilot Is Grounded. A Lawyer Is Disbarred. A Doctor Is: **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 6, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987 "2015-02-06T17:55:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/61 "2015-02-07T05:01:10Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Welders are defused. > Analysts are decompiled. > Boxers are dehooked. > Fire fighters are dehydrated. It’s ladies of the evening who are dehooked. Electricians are defused. Male dogs are dehydrated. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/62 "2015-02-07T05:03:53Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > A vasectomist is given the sack That took some balls. A mixologist is dis-barred. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/63 "2015-02-07T07:09:16Z")
Authors of music are decomposed. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/64 "2015-02-07T08:57:52Z")
Weather forecasters are disgusted. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/65 "2015-02-07T09:24:01Z")
Funicular railroad operators are disinclined. ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/66 "2015-02-07T09:34:54Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > In the UK at least, a doctor is “struck off” (the medical register). Also in Aus. This local newpaper article [theaustralian.com.au](http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/doctor-struck-off-over-use-of-toxic-treatment/story-e6frg6nf-1226697378692?nk=8e4d8f5e2956f42b0ab3dde700337b97) uses the term “struck off” for the local doctor, and “his licence was cancelled” for the American/Austrian doctor. For a lesser offence, where he/she only looses practicing rights, I imagine the doctor would be disappointed. Physicists would be discerned and, Builders Laborers convicted of safety offences would simply be discarded. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/67 "2015-02-07T12:14:54Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Fire fighters are dehydrated. Fire fighters are fired, surely. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/68 "2015-02-07T12:36:57Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > Fire fighters are fired, surely. Actually, firefighters get burned out. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/69 "2015-02-07T13:10:51Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Actually, firefighters get burned out. My brother was one until he was extinguished. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/70 "2015-02-07T13:49:36Z")
drag performers are also defrocked, but it’s a very different ceremony election board members are relieved of their suffrage milk company executives are put out to Pasteur chess players mate for life cantors are bentshed ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/71 "2015-02-07T13:53:36Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Actually, firefighters get burned out. OK, I’ll give you that. Marine biologists are dehydrated. Kings, of course, are demoated. Cashiers are delineated. Hunters are debaited. Operators are recalled. Reporters are denoted. Religious publishers are detracted. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/72 "2015-02-07T14:02:24Z")
I wish Jack Chick would get detracted. ---
**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/73 "2015-02-07T14:06:54Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > _slaps **Slithy Tove** with a [del]wet[/del] frozen trout_ Brillig! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/74 "2015-02-07T15:18:28Z")
Baristas are decaffeinated. Arborists are debarked. Marriage counselors are disavowed. Postmen are undelivered. Garbage collectors are trashed. Hockey players are pucked. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/75 "2015-02-07T15:27:09Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I wish Jack Chick would get detracted. I’d settle for de-loused, though I doubt much would be left. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/76 "2015-02-07T16:16:09Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > … > cantors are bentshed 😃 At dog shows, the activities backstage where dogs are kept and shown to the public is known as “benching,” which always makes me laugh. It’s a drag because there are so few dog-show people who know Yiddish (or are Jewish, in my experience) and so I can’t make a funny. ETA for others who hate it, naturally enough, when jokes are made with punchlines in other languages: “bentsching”–pronounced “benching”–is a relaxed way of saying “praying (a particular prayer.)” I have no idea of its etymology. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/77 "2015-02-07T16:24:01Z")
Ok, what the hell, since **Rivka** started it: Dieters are debauched. (German “stomach.”) Rule for cross-language puns: explanatory note required. Jeez, we got a whole new forum just waiting for this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/78 "2015-02-07T16:28:03Z")
**A Lawyer Is Disbarred. A Doctor Is:** …rolling on the floor in merriment. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/79 "2015-02-07T16:56:12Z")
A harbor master is deported A chocolatier is given the kiss-off A vocalist is unsung An optician is made a spectacle An announcer is denounced ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987/80 "2015-02-07T17:01:19Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > ETA for others who hate it, naturally enough, when jokes are made with punchlines in other languages: “bentsching”–pronounced “benching”–is a relaxed way of saying “praying (a particular prayer.)” I have no idea of its etymology. “Bentshen” is the Yiddish verb, and it’s a contraction, believe it or not, of “benediction.” It was a coincidence that the Latin loan-word in English happened to end a lot like most Yiddish verbs. The participle “bentshing,” and all other forms like “to bentsh” are so-called “Yinglish,” when a Yiddish word is treated like an English word by conjugation, or lack of declension. Or a shift in definition, the way Americans use “shmuck,” a very bad word to describe a very bad person, as a mild word to describe someone who in Yiddish would be called a shmo, or a shnook. Cantors are singers who are specially trained to lead Jewish services, chant Torah, and lead other parts of religious gatherings, like graveside services, or occasionally the prayer after meals, which is what “bentshing” is. Aren’t you glad you asked? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-pilot-is-grounded-a-lawyer-is-disbarred-a-doctor-is/711987.md?page=5)