An upside-down paper umbrella holds blue glass drops on a yellow plate.

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Burt Gummer

What kind of supreme being would condone such irony?

— Tremors 3: Back to Perfection • 2001

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker is baffled by an outcome so ironic it feels almost designed, wondering what kind of higher power would allow it. It's a wry, exasperated complaint that treats a cruel coincidence as evidence of a very strange sense of humour up above.

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