A pink piggy bank with scattered coins and a small white flower on a pale green surface.

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Jack Handey

I hope that after I die, people will say of me: “That guy sure owed me a lot of money.”

— Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker imagines being remembered by people still waiting to be repaid. That twists a familiar wish for a lasting legacy into a joke about unpaid debts: the lasting impression would be the money others had lost, rather than some admired achievement.

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