A silver fish leaps from a shallow metal basin, scattering water against dark green.

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Janie, make a note. We need to schedule more events where somebody gives me a really big fish.

— The American President  ·  1995

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker tells Janie to make a note: they want more occasions built around being handed a really big fish. It's a dry, self-indulgent bit of scheduling, treating a gift as something to be arranged again and again for the pleasure of receiving it.

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