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i got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell 

This phrase was made famous by Christopher Walken in the SNL sketch "More Cowbell". He plays a famous record producer, who insists that Blue Oyster Cult increase the volume of the cowbell in their studio recording takes of "Don't Fear the Reaper".
Walken (as record producer): "I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell!"

Prescription 

Person: do you have a perscription for that medicine?
Person: do you mean prescription?
Prescription by TheTinyTheorist December 30, 2021

Prescriptive Relationship 

Prescriptive comes from Prescribe: Latin, praescribere =

1. to write at the beginning, dictate, order;

2. to lay down a rule : DICTATE;

3. to lay down as a guide, direction, or rule of action : ORDAIN;

4. to specify with authority.

A prescriptive relationship, then, is a relationship in which a person or people create a set of rules governing the relationship before the people involved ever get into said relationship. These rules are often set up to define a relationship involving someone who is not even in existence yet and therefore cannot give his or her input into the relationship agreements.

By contrast, a descriptive relationship describes the relationship as it is at the time with input from all involved.
John and Mary have a prescriptive relationship. Even though John and Mary haven't met anyone they're interested in yet, they have decided beforehand that anyone they date will be female, in love with them both equally, single, will live no more than 10 miles away, will not call John by the nickname "bunnylips", will not eat with them at their favorite restaurant, and cannot ever listen to the song John and Mary danced to at their wedding while John and/or Mary are in the room with her. When they meet her, these rules are non-negotiable and she has no say in them.

pornscript 

One who has been conscripted into porn.
Paris Hilton's pornscript, her boyfriend, was forced to make a video with her to further her career as a skanky hoe.

Prescrumptious 

A combination of the words presumptuous and scrumptious.

(of an edible substance) Believing a food to be flavorful or tasty before putting said consumable in one's mouth.
(adjective) It was prescrumptious of me to eat this burger without realizing it was overcooked!
Prescrumptious by Slesh August 6, 2014

sanitation-hygiene prescribed corpse incineration 

when,once a person succumbs to a potentially pandemic/epidemic causing disease, his body is not returned to his relatives for burial but is instead incinerated (usually by government executive order) for obvious sanitary/hygiene reasons in order to prevent further infection and try and stop the rampant pandemic/epidemic from spreading.
all the religious and superstitious spiel aside, and despite the fact that sanitation-hygiene prescribed corpse incineration was inefficiently used during The Black Death epidemic of 1347-1351 in Europe, IMHO sanitation-hygiene prescribed corpse incineration should still be considered as a viable option in treating the current Ebola outbreak in Western Africa