Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: Few people are interested, and the frog dies.
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Dissecting
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He enjoys engaging in macabre activities such as dissecting animal corpses and stalking people on the street at night.
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After all, he was a scientist, but mostly he liked dissecting innocent animals.
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Sometimes he spent his day at the chemical laboratory, sometimes in the dissecting rooms, and occasionally in long walks, which appeared to take him into the lowest portions of the city.
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