RE: [BNW] Re: [OT] Fashion Question

["Silverman, Sandor" <Sandor.Silverman@bender.com>]

>I think it actually comes from a movie (either "Tunnelvision" or "Kentucky 
>Fried Movie") where a man in a lab coat comes on screen and says "I'm not a

>doctor but I play one on TV, and I'm being paid to ask you this important 
>question..."  

>IIRC (if I recall correctly) this also appeared on a "Firesign Theatre" 
>album. 

>Jeff


Be careful, Jeff.

You might as well be speaking Esperanto to some of these kids. ;)

I think it goes back even deeper in time, when actors who played doctors
(like Robert Young playing Marcus Welby) would actually hawk medicinal
products in commercials, on the basis that the viewing public would
(falsely) associate the supposed authority of the character with the
product.

From there it was satirized (like in Jeff's examples) and eventually
migrated into the cultural usage of "I have no real expertise in this area,
but I'm giving my opinion anyway."

Caveat Emptor,

Sandor