A metal switch box stands beside coiled orange cable and an unlit glass bulb.

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Ray Stantz

Everything was fine until the grid was shut down by dickless here.

— Ghostbusters ‧ 1984

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker places a sharp dividing line at the shutdown of the grid: things were fine before it, and the person addressed gets the blame. The crude insult adds anger to that account. Read as a comic accusation, the sentence reduces a larger problem to one pointed grievance.

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