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Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work. But I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped!
— The Princess Bride • 1987
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
This is a comically villainous to-do list delivered with polite exasperation, mixing mundane royal duties with murder plots as if they were equally routine chores. The humor comes from the casual tone applied to horrifying plans, making the speaker's evil scheming sound like ordinary busyness and overcommitment.
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