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There are things I will not tolerate: students loitering on campus after school, horrible murders with hearts being removed...and also smoking.
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer · 1997
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker lists what they refuse to tolerate: students hanging around after school, gruesome murders involving removed hearts, and smoking. The humour comes from placing petty rules and horrific crimes in the same breath, as though all three offend equally. It is an officious, deadpan ranking of offences.
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