feel like a pack of cards

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What does it mean by " feel like a pack of cards" in the following sentence extracted from "Grammar with Laughter" book ?

Doctor, I feel like a pack of cards.

If you sit down, I'll deal with you in a minute.
 

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This kind of joke relies on the unlikely scenario of a patient hallucinating about feeling like an inanimate object.

When you're playing card games you deal them out.

'I'll deal with you' means 'I'll attend to you.

Here's another:

'Doctor, doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains.'

'Pull yourself together.'
 

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The patient is describing his symptoms. The doctor (presumably a psychologist) is making a pun. See definition #3 here as well as 4a under the intransitive verb entry.

Here are some similar doctor jokes with puns.

(cross-posted with Rover)
 

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And my favourite (which will only make sense to some):

Doctor, I think I've got hermes.
Don't you mean herpes?
No. I'm a carrier.

:-D
 

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Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking I'm a billiard ball...
 

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Doctor, help! I think I'm a moth!

You don't want me, you want a psychiatrist.

Yeah, I know! I was on my way there, but I saw your light . . . .

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Doctor, I can't get a date. What's wrong with me?

You're ugly.

I want a second opinion!

Okay. You're stupid, too!
 

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Doctor, Doctor, I keep thinking I'm a billiard ball...

Uh . . .

- I've been a little behind-the-eight-ball myself?

- Don't rack your brains about it?

- I guess that's my cue?

Okay. I give up.
 

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...Get to the back of the queue/cue!

 

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One of my favorites.

A guy walks into the psychiatrist's office wearing only cellophane. The doctor says "Well, I can clearly see you're nuts."
 
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