A cracked speckled egg is nestled in a knitted scarf with a small red pennant and moss against brown-green.

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Red Forman

Women are never done with it, son. Anything wrong you do, they sit on it for twenty five years, like an egg. And then it hatches – on Superbowl Sunday.

— That '70s Show  ·  1998

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A grumbling joke about grudges: wrongs get kept and incubated for decades like an egg, then hatch at the worst possible moment, here a big football Sunday. The speaker presents women as never finished with an old mistake, a sweeping comic generalization rather than a fact.

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