How shall I fire thee? Let me count the ways.

[Tricky]

The "one common form of the word" thread made me reflect on a topic I used to have great fun with.

We all know that priests get defrocked and lawyers get disbarred. What happens in other professions when they get kicked out? A few suggestions. Feel free to add.

Secretaries get defiled.
Math teachers get discounted (except calculus teachers, who get disintegrated).
Pig farmers become disgruntled.
Doctors become impatient.
Investment counsellors become untrustworthy
Mediums get dispirited.

And many more...

[roger]

place kickers become displaced.
swimsuit models are deposed.
Blackjack dealers are discarded.
x-ray technicians are disarrayed.

[Hexxenhammer]

Human cannonballs are unloaded.

[roger]

veil makers become unavailable.

[headscratcher4]

Dry cleaners become depressed?

[Underemployed]

Computer technicians get booted

but...

Programmers get decompiled

[roger]

a juggler is dropped.

-- fooey, this one doesn't follow the rules.

[Hexxenhammer]

Pilots are deplaned.

[Hexxenhammer]

Orchard workers are impeached.

[roger]

knife throwers are dismissed.

[roger]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
Orchard workers are impeached. They must feel despair over this.

[headscratcher4]

Originally posted by roger
They must feel despair over this.

That's plum apple-ing.

[roger]

Directors are deactivated.

[Peter Jenkins]

Government ministers are deregulated

Lawyers are debarred

Peter

[roger]

infield players are debased.

[roger]

fishermen are debated.

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by headscratcher4


That's plum apple-ing. Orange you going to apple-ogise for that horrible pun?

[roger]

civil engineers are abridged.

[Phil]

Hat makers are decapitated.

[headscratcher4]

Masons are mortar-fied?

[Hexxenhammer]

Anthropologists are devolved.

[roger]

yoga teachers are distressed.

[wayrad]

Scoutmasters decamp.

[roger]

umpires are recalled.

[roger]

telephone salesmen are switched to wireless.

[Small Town Jesus]

Train drivers are derailed

[roger]

pastors are depreciated.

[Brian]

Nuns are uninhabited

[Phil]

Hookers are unscrewed.

[Hexxenhammer]

Pistoleros are outgunned.

[roger]

The treasurer was disbursed.

[Phil]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
Pistoleros are outgunned. Pistoleros are fired.

[headscratcher4]

Skeptics are unpersuaded?

[headscratcher4]

Skeptics are unpersuaded?

[headscratcher4]

Skeptics are unpersuaded?

[Phil]

Magicians are disillusioned.

[Hexxenhammer]

Guys named Robert are discombobulated.

[roger]

Doormen are punished by being forced to become a lackey.

[Phil]

Yuppies are disLexic

Too conceptual?

[roger]

The florist found that his firing was a disaster.

[roger]

The mason was astonished.

[roger]

The apiary director was fired for not bee-hiving; he was bereaved.

[Tricky]

Meteorologists are disgusted
Advertisers are designed
Urologists don't geet fired, but they have to go through peer review.
Fly fishermen are outcast.
Outhouse cleaners are disinterred. (Think about it.)

[Evolver]

Dope dealers are disjointed.

[roger]

Originally posted by Tricky
Outhouse cleaners are disinterred. (Think about it.) I thought they were sh*tcanned.

[Brian]

Gynacologists get a pink slip.

[JesFine]

Nice.

Carpenters get unhinged.
Politicians get deloused.
Lawyers become infirm.

[Brown]

Xerox machine operators become redundant.
Poor male porn stars are prematurely ejected.

[sorgoth]

Firemen are burned.

[Brown]

Pedestrians are given their walking papers.

[Brown]

Gus Grissom got fired.

(Sorry about that. That was something my brother said.)

[Brown]

Grocers get sacked.

[Brown]

People named Connor get terminated.

[Evolver]

Civil rights lawyers get disintegrated.

[JesFine]

Originally posted by Phil
Hookers are unscrewed. Hookers also get laid off.

[Zep]

Originally posted by roger
fishermen are debated. Old fishermen never die...they just smell that way.

[Zep]

Actually, fishermen get unhooked (or rebated?).

[Zep]

King Arthur got the rounds of the table, and then the long knight off.

[Ed]

Artillarymen are fired

Randi is un-amazed (ouch)

[JesFine]

Single women get dismissed.

[roger]

sword fighters get cut.

[Brian]

Democrats go on the Dole.

[roger]

Janitors are washed up.

[Donn]

Health Inspectors get disgusted.
Star-Trek transporter operators get distorted.
Animal trappers get deferred.
Drunks get detoxed!

Creationists devolve!

:)

[Brown]

Sanitation workers get dumped.
Trapeze artists get let go.

[Donn]

Fakers deploy.
Mathematicians dissolve...

[Donn]

Cartoons get cut out.
Carpenters get shown the door.

Bad Astronomers get spaced.

[Chaos]

Originally posted by roger
Janitors are washed up.

Wrong.

Janitors get swept away.

And woodcutters and dentists get uprooted.

[Brian]

Viagra spammers get downsized.