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When you’re an experienced woodsman, you get a feel for these things. It’s like a third sense.
— Homer ‧ The Simpsons
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker boasts that woodland experience has sharpened their instincts, then calls this a third sense. The joke is the mistaken number: the familiar boast would be a sixth sense. That slip undermines the expertise the speaker is trying to display.
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