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"Over 18" is completely standard language and doesn't imply 19, 18 years and 1 millisecond is over 18.


* Website/{{Reddit}}'s [[NotSafeForWork NSFW]] warning displays a sign with the number 18--the age of majority--but then asks the reader to "confirm [they're] over 18", implying that the age of majority would be an unusual ''19'' in this case.
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-->'''Ramjet:''' What are you talking about? I am the original Starscream!\\
'''Starscream:''' Liar! ''I'' am the original Starscream!\\
'''Ramjet:''' [[BlatantLies I never said I was the original Starscream.]]\\
'''Starscream:''' You just did right now.\\
'''Ramjet:''' No, I didn't.\\
'''Starscream:''' Yes, you did.\\
'''Ramjet:''' No, I didn't!\\
'''Starscream:''' Yes, you did!\\
'''Ramjet:''' ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis No. I. Didn't.]]''
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* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Alastor, in cajoling/threatening a reluctant Husk into working at the hotel, conjures up a bottle.
--> '''Husk:''' What, you think you can buy me with a wink and some [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cheap booze]]?! ({{Beat}}.) Well, you can!
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', the Liar Starscream (one of Starscream's {{Literal Split Personalit|y}}ies) tells nothing but lies, even if the lie contradicts the previous lie.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', the Liar Starscream Ramjet (one of Starscream's {{Literal Split Personalit|y}}ies) Personalit|y}}ies clones) tells nothing but lies, even if the lie contradicts the previous lie.

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* Calvin really ''could'' have made a good lawyer: in law you do something called "arguing in the alternative"; e.g., "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, and who's to say a crime was even committed?"
* One of Vice President UsefulNotes/DanQuayle's infamous gaffes was, when following up on a statement that "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history," said (paraphrased by reporter), "No, not our nation's, but in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history." He also said "I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change."
* The phrase "I'm not prejudiced, but..." invariably comes before a prejudiced statement. [[note]]Though some people have been known to jokingly say it before saying something completely innocuous as a NonSequitur[[/note]] Similarly, "no offense" is often said just before saying something offensive. While the latter is sometimes an aversion (i.e. having to use BrutalHonesty but not wanting to hurt anybody's feelings), in other situations it's very much this trope.
* It's also said that the phrase "WithDueRespect" invariably comes before a ''very'' disrespectful comment.

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* Calvin really ''could'' have made a good lawyer: in law you do something called "arguing in the alternative"; e.g., "I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, and who's to say a crime was even committed?"
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infamous gaffes was, when following up on a statement that "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history," said (paraphrased by reporter), "No, not our nation's, but in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. I mean, we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century, but in this century's history." He also said "I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change."
* The phrase "I'm not prejudiced, but..." invariably comes before a prejudiced statement. [[note]]Though some people have been known to jokingly say it before saying something completely innocuous as a NonSequitur[[/note]] Similarly, "no offense" is often said just before saying something offensive. While the latter is sometimes an aversion (i.e. having to use BrutalHonesty but not wanting to hurt anybody's feelings), in other situations it's very much this trope.
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** He also said "I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that the phrase "WithDueRespect" invariably comes before a ''very'' disrespectful comment.could change."
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* ''Series/RobynHood2023'': Tuck claims "his body is a temple" immediately before showing that he has an implant that injects him with dopamine whenever his heartrate gets too high[[note]]Worse, the previous episode established he drinks enough hard liquor that he stores some inside his computer desk[[/note]].
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* German [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Soccer]] player Stefan Reuter once made a remark in a post-match interview:
-->'''Stefan Reuter:''' I'm not going to say a word on the referee's performance. But the decisions made there were an embarassment.[[note]]Zur Schiedsrichterleistung will ich gar nichts sagen. Aber das, was da gepfiffen wurde, war eine Frechheit.[[/note]]
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* ''Webcomic/JupiterMen'': While demonstrating his growing mastery of his powers to Jackie, Quintin proclaims that he's pretty much mastered his abilities right before accidentally reeling a soda can into his head.
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* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/ColorClassics'' cartoon ''Peeping Penguins'', the penguins vow to their mother that they will never be curious again, but afterward they find something moving in the snow and look at it, wondering with what couldn't be anything other than curiosity what it could be, with their mother doing the same thing.

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