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{{quote|'''Air Control Guy:''' Hey...you're not just impersonating a pilot so you can drink here [at the pilots-only bar], are you?...<br />
'''Homer:''' ''*ashamed*'' Yeah. That's exactly why I'm here.<br />
'''Air Control Guy:''' ''[laughs]]'' You fly boys crack me up!<br />
''*cut to outside the plane*''<br />
'''Homer:''' But I keep telling you, ''I'm not a pilot!''<br />
'''Air Control Guy:''' And I keep telling you; you fly boys crack me up! ''*throws him into the cockpit*''|''[[The Simpsons]]''}}
 
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* Some languages like Japanese put the negative right at the end of the sentence, meaning that refusal or denial sounds like an affirmation until the last second. Naturally this can be a problem with impatient individuals.
* Mater runs into this in ''[[Cars]] 2'' once he realizes that spies Finn McMissile and Holly Shiftwell think he's also a spy:
{{quote| '''Mater''': But you know I'm just a tow truck, right?<br />
'''Finn''': Right. And I'm just in the import-export business. }}
* The ritual of assigning blame for flatulence sometimes includes the claim "He who denied it supplied it"