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

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Mango

You can never have mango!

— Saturday Night Live  ·  1975

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker declares that the addressee can never have mango. The emphatic refusal preserves the ambiguity between the word and a possible name, without inventing a fruit transaction or relationship.

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