A bit of an older invention than that.
You are not…
A miracle worker
A mind reader (?)
A mechanic
A magician
A genius (??)
A miner
An escalator (??)
…sick?
An enginer?
The only person I’ve ever heard claim “I am not a magician/miracle worker/mind reader” is
My mother
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The only person I’ve ever heard claim “I am not a magician/miracle worker/mind reader” is
My mother
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Funny, this makes me think of
Dr. Leonard H. McCoy of the USS Enterprise
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Funny, this makes me think of
Dr. Leonard H. McCoy of the USS Enterprise
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Just how many people in this thread skipped post #11?
Peter? Yea or nay?
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Just how many people in this thread skipped post #11?
Peter? Yea or nay?
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I think this might be on the right track, but the question was “what,” not “who,” so I think the answer must be that he’s a doctor, damn it.
Aw dang, you people solved it before I could come in and say that I am…
The woman your mother warned you about.
Nice going though, Cisco! 
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Just how many people in this thread skipped post #11?
Peter? Yea or nay?
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yea[
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
I think this might be on the right track, but the question was “what,” not “who,” so I think the answer must be that he’s a doctor, damn it.
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is the exact answer I was looking for.
I guess I don’t see why that is necessarily the correct answer.
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
I guess I don’t see why that is necessarily the correct answer.
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Not being a Trekkie, neither do I, but I guess these are all lines Bones has said in Star Trek, in response to some request, e.g. [made-up example] “Make that moon just disappear? I’m not David Copperfield!”. Am I right?
[QUOTE=Dead Cat]
Not being a Trekkie, neither do I, but I guess these are all lines Bones has said in Star Trek, in response to some request, e.g. [made-up example] “Make that moon just disappear? I’m not David Copperfield!”. Am I right?
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The trademark line is, “I’m a DOCTOR, not a [miracle worker/physicist/coal miner/magician/etc].”
[QUOTE=Cisco]
Just how many people in this thread skipped post #11?
Peter? Yea or nay?
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Just how many people read post #11, post #43, et al, and still had no idea what the hell the puzzle was about? :dubious:
We’re not all Trekkie geeks, ya know. 
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You’re on the right track. I think I nailed it in post #11.
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I think so.
But…
Where does Warren Oates come into this? Is the father Warren Oates? Is it murdered dad?
How about the didn’t stay home from work clue?
I feel pretty goofy.
[QUOTE=jali]
I think so.
But…
Where does Warren Oates come into this? Is the father Warren Oates? Is it murdered dad?
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I’m a doctor, not a Coal Miner
The Devil In The Dark
I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer
The Empath
(The song is based upon an famous sketch by Gerard Hoffnung.)
Yeah, calling this a puzzle (which suggest a singular, logical, inevitable answer) is a misnomer.
Nice mind-reading exercise, though.
I think you’ve got those episodes switched. The bricklayer comment was in ST:TOS “Devil in the Dark,” IIRC, and the coalminer comment was in “The Empath.”
D’oh :smack:
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Yeah, calling this a puzzle (which suggest a singular, logical, inevitable answer) is a misnomer.
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Meh. I couldn’t solve it, but once I understood the answer, it felt perfectly fine to me; I went straight from “This is silly. How could anyone be expected to figure this out?” to “Oh, yes, a nice puzzle indeed”. Perhaps I don’t ascribe the same connotations to “puzzle” that you do. (Of course, that having been said, Cisco himself described it as “Way too contrived”…)
Anyway, my props to both Peter Morris and Cisco.
Congrats to you both. Great idea.
[QUOTE=Peter Morris]
…
You weren’t made by Seeberger.
You are not unable to come to work today.
You have never been hoist by a petar.
…
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How does Dr. McCoy fit these queries?