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2 | |
3 | ->There's a ceramic flower pot in front of you. About six inches across, seven inches tall.\ |
4 | There's a pair of distinctly leonine ears poking out of the top.\ |
5 | Really, it isn't all that unlikely. Lions, as everyone knows, are sneaky bastards.\ |
6 | "You're going to have to do better than that, mate," you say to the flower pot. "I can see your ears, you know."\ |
7 | Two heavy paws thump against your back, knocking you onto your belly. You hit your forehead, hard, on the ground. With ears ringing, you see the lion through a curtain of fuzzy red dots as it stalks over to the flower pot and lifts out the pair of artificial ears before sitting the pot atop its head like a hat. It looks at you with a certain amused expression, as if to say "Fool! Lions are very large and cannot fit in flower pots!"\ |
8 | Of course they can't. How silly of you. |
9 | -->-- ''VideoGame/ImprobableIsland'' |
10 | |
11 | ->''"The diversion you're ignoring is the main attack."'' |
12 | -->-- One of many laws attributed to '''Edward Murphy''', albeit one he [[BeamMeUpScotty probably never said]]. |
13 | |
14 | ->''"Don't worry, they were so proud of themselves for rooting through my pockets that I'd thought I'd let them gloat. But allow me to explain a basic tenet of magic; If I'm flaunting something shiny, it's because there's something I don't want you to see."'' |
15 | -->-- '''Mr. Compress,''' ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' |
16 | |
17 | ->'''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': We know it's a trap, doofus. You haven't been around for it, but Sean gets caught as bait for Mom and Dad pretty frequently. They know how these ''"save your son"'' things go.\ |
18 | '''Old [=McNinja=]''': No, you don't understand. The trap is for ''you''.\ |
19 | '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': ...What?\ |
20 | [...]\ |
21 | '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': So it was a trap.\ |
22 | '''Old [=McNinja=]''': It was a trap.\ |
23 | '''Dr. [=McNinja=]''': Well at least it was ''[[LightningBruiser Mongo]]''. Mongo's understandable... We were going to have some stern words about getting kidnapped by [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything the Luftgoggle]]. |
24 | -->-- ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDoctorMcNinja'' |
25 | |
26 | ->''"The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch."'' |
27 | -->-- '''Kaz''', ''Literature/SixOfCrows'' |
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