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A woman (and [[Always Female|it is almost always a woman]]), subjected to the advances of an [[Abhorrent Admirer]], indicates that she doesn't want to date him but is trying to let him down easy. Unfortunately she [[I
Named for the [[Stock Phrase]] that has become ''such'' a [[Dead Horse Trope|clichéd excuse]] that it doesn't let the target down easily at all, but instead says ''"I wouldn't go out with you if every other man on the planet was radioactive!"''
Compare and contrast [[I
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Used in a ''[[Dilbert]]'' comic strip in which the titular character asks a girl out. She gives him this line and offers coffee at the workplace instead. Dilbert declines, preferring someone with "clean hair."
** Another woman blows Dilbert off with the excuse, "[[I
** ''Clue for the Clueless'' gives two versions of this excuse: The first is vague but plausible, such as "I have 'plans' this evening", the second is specific and implausible, for example "I have to wax my cat", and is generally reserved for losers.
* A ''[[Garfield]]'' book listed this line as a way for a girl to refuse a date offer from Jon Arbuckle, adding onto it "each one individually".
** The others in that book would mention listing here if they didn't venture dangerously close to [[I
== [[Theater]] ==
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{{quote|'''Odette''': I haven't packed or washed my hair, and Father, I get seasick!}}
== Other Media ==
* A variant shows up in a [[Jack Chick]] tract: The daughter of a man whose soul the angels and demons were fighting over gets sent to go wash her hair by a guardian angel so that her Christian friend would try to convert the dad while she waited for the girl to finish washing her hair (because apparently [[Jack Chick]] thinks that it takes hours).
* [[Riff Trax]] "Skipper Learns A Lesson"
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