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Evening officer, buy us some beer?
— Nathan Scott ‧ One Tree Hill
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A casual, cheeky request addressed to a police officer, asking to be bought beer. The greeting is breezy and the ask is bold, treating an authority figure as a convenient favor-giver. Its humour depends on the nerve of making the request at all.
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