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{{quote|'''Hamlet''': [[That Cloud Looks Like...|Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?]]<br />
'''Polonius''': By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.<br />
'''Hamlet''': Methinks it is [[Trope Namer|like a weasel]].<br />
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'''Character B:''' Of course! Just [[Be Yourself]]. }}
 
A [[Yes -Man]] is an assistant (in a business or political capacity) whose ''job'' is to be [[Like a Weasel]]. [[Favouritism Flip Flop]] is a subtrope where Bob openly says he hates something until Alice says she likes it.
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* Polonius does this all the time in ''[[Hamlet]]'', especially while attempting to humor the prince, who is pretending to be insane, with the following being a standard example. Hamlet shamelessly encourages/[[Trolling|trolls]] him.
{{quote| '''Hamlet''': [[That Cloud Looks Like...|Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?]]<br />
'''Polonius''': By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.<br />
'''Hamlet''': Methinks it is [[Trope Namer|like a weasel]].<br />
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'''Billy''': ''So'' good. }}
* [http://www.violentacres.com/archives/84/if-you-dont-have-the-balls-to-be-hated-then-you-dont-deserve-to-be-loved This blog post] implies that most respondents to blogs are like this.
* ''[[The Salvation War]]'''s first book, ''Armageddon?'', gives us this bit of dialogue between [[George W. Bush]] and [[Tricolours With Rusting Rockets|Vladimir Putin]], after one of the demonic generals surrenders and requests asylum:
{{quote| '''Bush''': ''“Vladimir, this is Dubya. I have urgent news. General Abigor has just surrendered and defected.”''<br />
'''Putin''': ''“That filthy Vlasovite bastard.”''<br />
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[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]]
[[Category:Like A Weasel]]
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