A torn blank sheet clipped to a line beside a snow globe and scattered orange fragments on a blue-gray surface.

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Talk Show Guest

According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th, in the year two thousand and sixteen.

— Ghostbusters II ‧ 1989

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Our interpretation.

The speaker gives an exact date for the end of the world while referring only to 'my source'. The contrast between a precise prediction and an unspecified authority creates comic tension. The claim sounds definite even though its basis remains outside the quoted explanation.

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