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Superintendent Gary Chalmers: You call hamburgers "steamed hams"?
Principal Seymour Skinner: Yes, it's a regional dialect!
Chalmers: Uh-huh. What region?
Seymour: Uhhhh, upstate New York.
Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no, it's an Albany expression.
Chalmers: I see.
(they start eating)
Chalmers: You know, these hamburgers are quite similar to the ones they have at Krusty Burger.
Skinner: (chuckling) Oh-ho-ho, no. Patented Skinner Burgers, old family recipe.
Chalmers: For "steamed hams"?
Skinner: Yes.
Chalmers: Yes, and you call them "steamed hams" despite the fact they are obviously grilled.
Seymour: Ye—I...you know the...one thing I sho...excuse me for a second.
Timmy's Dad: Son, where did you get all these nice things?
Timmy: Uhhh... Internet?
Timmy's Dad: And where did you get the Internet?
Timmy: Uhh...uhh...
Timmy's Dad: Gasp! He's stammering! Our son is the Wall-2-Wall-Mart Shoplifter!
Fairly OddParents, "Inspection Detection"

"A non-answer in a moment like this is an answer. If you had asked me, 'Have you ever been aroused by the fairies in Zelda: The Ocarina of Time?' and I responded by slowly and silently walking away from you, you’d know exactly what I was saying."

The Genghis Mk. II is a- ██sanctioned, ██safe method of- foliage elimination. For use in: High-density arboreal environments. Continental jungles. High tree concentration preferred. Not for use in: crimes, area denial/soft-target elimination, high-density terrestrial urban centers, swarm tactics. Foliage elimination only.

Harrison Armory promises the Genghis Mk II has no relation to weapons used in the ███████. Original frame, do not steal. Moving on.

The Armory-designed- auto-cooler is a- simple, persistent, uh... air-conditioning system to keep you cool while... you're... gardening.

To better manage the Genghis' tremendous civilian... applications, AGNI was developed using a combination of- kindness, and, cat pictures. No bad things happened, and pilots report that AGNI clones are, always happy and very stable. AGNI is your cool friend who is fun to be with.

By the way, Harrison Armory recommends you cycle AGNI soon like tomorrow maybe "yes", I replied, "I should be" the fireman smiles first contact war catastrophic climate failure on target worlds TBK Sustain Suite Hercynian Crisis TOTAL BIOME KILL

John: And you're lying again.
Hailey: What? How do you know?!
John: You repeated the question again, Hailey. You cannot hesitate, you have to project confidence. People can smell dishonesty, they can smell nervousness, even stupid people. But everybody's a sucker for confidence.
John Weir teaching Hailey Winton the art of deception, Rabbit Hole (2023)

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