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{{quote|'''Cain''': "But she's not nearly as accident prone as she's supposed to be. I'll grant you she fell down an ambull tunnel once, and there was that incident with the frag grenade and the latrine trench, but things tend to work out for her. The orks on Kastafore were as surprised as she was when the floor in the factory collapsed, and we'd have walked right into that hrud ambush on Skweki if she hadn't triggered the mine by chucking an empty food tin away..."

My brain finally caught up to what I was saying and I trailed off rather lamely. "Well, you know how soldiers exaggerate these things." }}

* In ''Wizard's First Rule'', first book of the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, Zedd invokes this on a mob that's coming to burn him for being a witch. Zedd asks them why, exactly, they want to burn him, and they say it's because of his horrible magic powers. Zedd asks them to elaborate and be more specific. As they list all the different ways that they think Zedd can throw magical wrath around, the crowd slowly realizes that attacking someone who can shoot fire out of his fingertips might not be the brightest idea after all.

 

{{quote|'''Scrooge:''' Oh, what are ye gapin; at? Da curse is only activated if ya ring the gong three times, and, and... ya already hit it two times, didn't ya?}}

* In the ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'' episode "Room for Growth", Mariner, Boimler, and Tendi are sneaking through the ship's arboretum. Tendi stops to admire some rare plant life, commenting on how they don't need water so long as they are grown in an atmosphere that is high in nitrous oxide. She doesn't figure out for a minute or so that while she - an Orion - can survive comfortably in such an environment, humans - like Mariner and Boimler - cannot.

 

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