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Dispenser Machine

You are my NEMESIS! One day, our paths will cross again, and I will destroy you!!

— Red Dwarf · 1988

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker names a hated rival with theatrical grandeur, promising that their paths will cross again and that destruction will follow. The capital letters and doubled exclamation marks give the vow a melodramatic, comic-villain feel, as though the grudge is both deadly serious and slightly absurd.

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