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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There's an other one...

And the doctor wouldn't shake your hand for it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

🎢 The pinball wizard has such a supple wrist 🎢

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

🎢 The deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball🎢

Wait, how did he go deaf?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think he was born that way? I don't think the song specified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The album leaves it ambiguous, but it's likely trauma from watching his father kill his mom's lover when he returned from military service.

Then being told you never saw it, you never heard it, you won't say nothing to no one..."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The whole song is a reference to spanking the monkey anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Carpel tunnel from too much jerkin it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You jerk with your right hand?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

He already has carpal tunnel in the left one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

That's really true though. Pinball is grueling, πŸ˜‚.

I can't imagine somebody who plays a long tournament one afternoon into the late night, then wakes up the morning and does it again for 8 hours. Their wrists must swell up like cankles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

"Pinball"

So that's what we're calling it these days?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Carpal tunnel from jerking off?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Then everyone in the waiting room clapped.