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Excuse me! Excuse me! EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! If you don’t mind, the “corpse” STILL has the floor!
— The Ref · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our 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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