A brown glove with one raised finger casts an exclamation-mark-shaped shadow on pale ground.

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Arnold Rimmer

Please rush me my portable walrus polishing kit. Four super brushes to tackle even the trickiest of sea-bound mammals. Yes, I am over 18, although my IQ isn't.

— Red Dwarf • 1988

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Our interpretation.

Rimmer asks for a portable walrus-polishing kit, lists its promised brushes and claims to be over eighteen while saying his IQ is not. The emphatic request ends in self-disparagement rather than proving an actual product or test score.

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