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No offense, dad, but I’ve seen you with a glue gun, and I think a nail would be harder to get out of my hair.
— Luke Dunphy • Modern Family
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Luke turns concern about his father's tool skills into a joke at his expense. Glue in the hair is bad enough; a nail would be harder to remove. The polite opening barely softens a warning that the next mishap could be worse.
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