A white porcelain hand holds a red carnation beside a small oval mirror on a stand against plum.

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Phil

You know, when I was alive I would have found her attractive.

— City Slickers  ·  1991

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

A wry, slightly morbid joke from someone who talks as though they're no longer living: back when they were alive, they would have thought a certain woman attractive. The humour is in the deadpan way being dead is treated like a past stage of life with lost tastes.

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