A brightly colored plaid glove rests over a white golf ball against a pale turquoise background.

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Happy Gilmore

Golfing requires goofy pants and a fat ass. You should talk to my neighbor, the accountant – huge ass.

— Happy Gilmore • 1996

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Happy reduces golf to a costume and a body shape, then supplies a neighbour as if those were meaningful qualifications. The accountant is recommended for precisely the wrong reason. That confident substitution of appearance for ability gives the observation its deliberately crude logic.

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