A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Mulder

What's the point of this test, Scully?

— The Simpsons · 1989

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks what a test is meant to establish. The question challenges its purpose without telling us what kind of test it is.

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