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Excuse me! Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! If you don’t mind, the “corpse” STILL has the floor!
— Lloyd · The Ref
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The repeated requests for attention become louder and less patient before the speaker insists that the supposed corpse still has the floor. The joke gives a supposedly silent or absent person an emphatic voice, turning a polite conversational phrase into an indignant demand to be heard.
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