A rope is coiled on warm stone beside deep blue-green harbour water.

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Emo Philips

I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't know, do you have cable? I say no, but the rope should work just fine.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A request to go home together shifts cable from a possible household amenity toward a rope and a menacing punchline. The reversal is threatening humour, not an acceptable invitation or conduct to follow.

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