A partly knitted green scarf hangs from needles beside a short red ribbon barrier against pale lime.

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Lloyd Chasseur

Caroline, the day you see anything through to the end, I’ll stick my own dick in my ear.

— The Ref · 1994

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker sarcastically dares someone to ever finish anything, promising an absurd, self-inflicted stunt as the price if they do. The vulgar hyperbole works because it treats completion as so unlikely that the ridiculous forfeit is safe to name.

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