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Could Say It, But...	comment	I'd like to explain that this is when Bob wants to say something, but for whatever reason can't, because I'm not supposed to. If I did, I'd say that maybe he'd risk his job if he spoke up, or maybe he just doesn't want to look crazy or malicious, or something like that. And I certainly can't tell you that Bob gets around this by mentioning it but pretending he isn't, as in, "Well I could tell you that the shutoff switch to the Doomsday Device is down the hall, first right, second left, behind the water cooler, but I won't do that because I'd lose my job." I'd like to explain that, in other words, he Could Say It But... he won't, except he just did...but I can't. Sometimes used as an insult, especially in politics. For example, "Some people would call my opponent a corrupt, greedy slimeball, but I, of course, refuse to resort to that kind of language." Truth in Television. The technical term is "paralipsis" or "praeteritio", depending on the nature of the information you're definitely not giving. See also Suspiciously Specific Denial or I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!, for those bits when this is not intentional. Also related to I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That and Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee. Do not confuse with I Would Say If I Could Say. May result from the asker using Politeness Judo.
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Could Say It, But... / int_10bc0a19	comment	Also Vimes in Night Watch: "And for close-up fighting, as your senior sergeant I explicitly forbid you to investigate the range of coshes, blackjacks, and brass knuckles sold by Mrs. Goodbody at No. 8 Easy Street at a range of prices to suit all pockets, and should any of you approach me privately I absolutely will not demonstrate a variety of specialist blows suitable for these useful yet tricky instruments."
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Could Say It, But... / int_1215a23d	comment	In Genshin Impact, the Chasm region is opened after meeting Muning, who is forbidden from revealing the dangers brewing in the mines... and in order to do his job, he tells the player there certainly isn't a problem, the seals very certainly aren't about to fail, but if you insist, you can talk to a local adventurer who isn't going spelunking. Between the two of them, they apparently amassed a whole task force on the sly via this method.
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Could Say It, But... / int_136469af	comment	In Pact, Cranaus, a legendary king of Athens who survives in the present day as the Right-Hand Cat Familiar of various wizards, discusses with a local bogeyman what he might do if he and his practitioner were in disagreement over a course of action—for example, about which of her relatives to support for rulership over the local supernatural community. He concludes that he might accost nearby spies, do what he could to keep them from overhearing more, and then inadvertently let slip such information as the location of a candidate, and what the family is planning to give them to succeed in his bid for power.
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Could Say It, But... / int_13665790	comment	Except, however, in Thud!, when Vimes goes to Ridcully for assistance in catching up with the bad guys (who have fled town). Maybe he's finally got the hang of it. It's hard to tell with Ridcully.
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Could Say It, But... / int_19ceec4c	comment	Three for the Chair: Amsel won't outright confirm the identity of the man he was asked to illegally wiretap (and probably did wiretap despite claiming that he turned down the job), claiming his memory is no good on the subject. Still, he says that since a specific person being the man Amsel was asked to wiretap would fit so well with Wolfe's theory, he should take it for granted.Â
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Could Say It, But... / int_1aa793b6	comment	The Hiimdaisy Big Long Persona 4 Comic portrays Mitsuru Adachi as this. Whenever the main characters are stuck, Adachi will come in with very suspiciously plot-relevant information and then cheerfully slink away. Almost stated word for word with his catch-phrase "Don't tell anyone I said this, buuuuuuuut...."
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Could Say It, But... / int_1ad4fe9a	comment	Done as a way to explain a riddle game in Might and Magic VIII — the Big Bad can't tell you how to stop him (he would want to, but there are safeguards that keep him from doing that), but the player characters are of course free to interpret the answers to his riddles any way they want. If that happen to lead them to the way to stop him, well, it's not like he actually told them how to do that. Then he hands you a set of magical keys, arguing that since you don't know how to use them to stop them, that doesn't risk him being stopped and so is not in violation of his programming.
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Could Say It, But... / int_1cc09117	comment	In the Bleach fanfic Important Insignificance, Ukitake cleverly does this for Ichigo and one of his friends when they needed to go to Hueco Mundo for a rescue. (Not that rescue, a different one.)
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Could Say It, But... / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Hercules has the song "I Won't Say I'm In Love", in which Meg sings about all of the things she will never say.
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Could Say It, But... / int_1f818da5	comment	Channel Awesome: In his review of He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special'', The Nostalgia Critic uses a counter for the gay jokes he could have made but didn't. During an April Fools special where Doug Walker played "musical critics" with Ask That Guy with the Glasses, The Nostalgia Critic, and Chester A. Bum, at the end of Ask That Guy (in Chester's place) reviewing Monsters vs. Aliens, he's told to mimic Chester's catch phrase, he gives his own version before eventually giving a perfect imitation of his "Change? Ya got change? Come on help a guy out, will ya?" catch phrase, asking if that's what they want, then saying he won't do it. However since they're all Doug Walker characters, this is understandable.
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Could Say It, But... / int_21810fae	comment	RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: In Nightmares Yet to Come, at one point Luna talks with one of her secretaries, who informs her that a group of ponies who attacked Trixie and Twilight are apparently newcomers on the scene, but Shining Armor thinks they're sun cultists. Luna emphatically does not state that she's disappointed by this, and her secretary equally emphatically does not respond that she understands.
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Could Say It, But... / int_22989f46	comment	L.A. Law. Deputy D.A. Grace Van Owen prosecutes a particularly devastating case of an obviously guilty father accused of molesting his 6-year-old daughter. She loses, and has the following conversation with the little girl's mother (played by Kathy Bates) in a conference room:
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Could Say It, But... / int_22e860f4	comment	In the season seven premiere of Psych, "Santabarbaratown 2", the gang is looking for a dirty ex-cop who has shot Henry in the previous episode. The Chief calls Shawn into her office and tells him that he's too emotionally involved, so she will not tell him to go after this cop, even though he's not officially on the case, and she certainly won't mention her belief that Shawn's abilities represent their best hope of catching the guy.
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Could Say It, But... / int_231ff07e	comment	Trace: In "The Third One Must Die", there is one of the closest things to a Love Confession one can get from an Implied Love Interest in a long-running series. After Rogozina's Old Flame is revealed to be in league with the criminals and Rogozina is devastated that she has been fooled so completely, Kruglov comments:
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Could Say It, But... / int_24ffd341	comment	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Occasionally the Gang wrongly assumes this. In one episode they're trying to settle a property dispute with a neighboring landowner, and the lawyer they consult tells them they have "No legal recourse." The Gang, naturally, believes he's telling them to commit a crime against their neighbor, and take the lawyer's objections as Suspiciously Specific Denials.
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Could Say It, But... / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: "Legally, I can't officially promise you a big cash settlement... but off the record, I promise you a big cash settlement." In "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" the orphanage director drops some hints as to where Homer might find his half-brother Herb. Homer doesn't get it. Skinner does this accidentally in "Lisa the Vegetarian", when he delivers an address to Lisa's class to respond to Lisa's complaints about the school adopting anti-vegetarian policies:
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Could Say It, But... / int_27777760	comment	In Eureka, Allison does this to Carter, in the episode in which he gets fired:
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Could Say It, But... / int_2feff3ce	comment	In Grey's Anatomy, when Cristina is impaled by an icicle right after she finally calls out on Meredith for constantly annoying her with details of Mer/Der relationship.
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Could Say It, But... / int_30ec3bce	comment	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean: The whores whom Roy married off to his deputies are working overtime to be seen as respectable society matrons, and wind up being antagonists to Roy. They are enraged when Roy calls them whores and demand an apology. Roy apologizes for calling them whores. He then says "I did not call you callous ass strumpets, fornicatresses, or low born gutter sluts," but he did call them whores, and for that he is sorry.
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Could Say It, But... / int_3158941c	comment	In The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Lizzie does not wish to reveal private information concerning Darcy's treatment of Wickham, so she tells a "story" about "Dar...vid" and "Batman" instead.
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Could Say It, But... / int_31677f1c	comment	In his review of He-Man and She-Ra: A Christmas Special'', The Nostalgia Critic uses a counter for the gay jokes he could have made but didn't.
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Could Say It, But... / int_331e009	comment	Borderlands 2's Dr. Zed gets in on this a bit. He is in no way dropping large amounts of money into your hands in exchange for bits of wildlife that he most certainly did not ask you to acquire for him, and is disgusted and appalled at the concept. Honest. And as Axton's commanding officer, his wife is definitely not telling him that he is about to be arrested and executed, and that he should get off-world immediately.
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Could Say It, But... / int_332a8b41	comment	In Inventing Anna, Todd, Anna's lawyer, tells Vivian he's going to get some coffee for a span of time large enough to check his document boxes about Anna's file.
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Could Say It, But... / int_3544ad11	comment	Francis Urquhart, or Underwood in the American remake, uses this as his catchphrase in House of Cards (UK): "You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment." In the American series, this is later used by his political rival, eliciting an expletive from Underwood. THE only real expletive Underwood uses in the entire show, no less. In Real Life British politics, saying what you want to say by saying you couldn't possibly say it is known as "Urquhart's Avoidance".
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Could Say It, But... / int_35bceb50	comment	Hamlet: Polonius has a few speeches where he goes on and on about the things he's not going to waste breath saying. Even the Ghost has one of these; an incredibly long-winded monologue about how terrifying everything is in Purgatory or whatever, and then adding that he's not going to talk about them.
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Could Say It, But... / int_36807c5d	comment	A ridiculous example from Neighbours, in which Toadie, a lawyer, has to get a message to a friend whose ex-girlfriend has told him not to tell him about her plan to regain custody of their son. He ends up revealing it explicitly with "I can't tell you that..." tacked on. Ridiculous because, a) he hadn't agreed to represent her yet (and made it clear that he wouldn't once he learned who she was) and b) had he actually needed to get around lawyer-client confidentiality, this wouldn't have been enough to get away with it.
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Could Say It, But... / int_37b56f7	comment	In Baldur's Gate II, Jan Jansen uses this trope to insult Anomen.
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Could Say It, But... / int_3a219aa4	comment	On Peep Show, Mark is trying to drop his rival in it with the girl he likes; "Oh, oh no, I've said too much... Just talk to Jeff. Ask him about what happened. At the pub. By the fruit machine. With the girl. And the lips." He walks away wondering if he's been too subtle.
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Could Say It, But... / int_3bc91429	comment	In one Doctor Who Magazine "It's the End, But..." column, the Watcher describes a party where one woman was insistent that Vere Lorrimer, not Verity Lambert, was the first director of Doctor Who, and various drunk Doctor Who fans attempted to correct her:
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Could Say It, But... / int_3eb3a36f	comment	Near the end of Assassination Classroom, Class 3-E is kidnapped and detained by the government to prevent them from interfering with their final assassination plan, and Karasuma can't directly do anything about it. He gets around it thanks to this trope: he seemingly berates them for trying to get to the mountain, detailing all the different defenses the mountain has and how skilled the mercenaries and their boss are, and leaves them telling them to cool their heads. Of course, his real intention was to give them vital information on said obstacles so they could make a plan and prepare to attack on the last day, when security was at its most lax.
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Could Say It, But... / int_3f633fb4	comment	Subverted in Cracked's article, 4 Shameless Uses of Dead Celebrities by Marketing Campaigns: "I'm really tempted to say that Bob Marley was a political revolutionary whose memory has been co-opted by a bunch of stoner kids with trendy faux-dreadlock haircuts that make them look like poorly thought-out Kurt Cobain statues, so I will. That's exactly what I'm saying. I just said it."
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Could Say It, But... / int_3f6c7a68	comment	Faeries in general talk like this to Harry, when there's something they want him to know but are too involved in their intricate games of diplomacy. In Cold Days three different Sidhe nobility try to slyly tell Harry something, but because they're so oblique he nearly misses it. In retrospect, it should have been a warning sign when Maeve, the Winter Lady was the only one speaking in clear declarative sentences.
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Could Say It, But... / int_413aa2f7	comment	The prologue of the Second Part of Don Quixote was published after Fernandez de Avellaneda published a Fan Fiction where he called Cervantes "a man without friends" and mocked his broken hand (by a war wound):
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Could Say It, But... / int_41645a44	comment	Space Cases: Goddard does this with Radu after inadvertently revealing to Harlan that Radu had been lying about his family to fit in with the rest of the crew.
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Could Say It, But... / int_41b0198a	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_41b0198a	comment	Happens on occasion in The Dresden Files: Thomas, in White Night: "If there was a meeting of the most powerful hundred or so nobles of the Court scheduled to meet at the family estate the day after tomorrow, I couldn't tell you about it." Faeries in general talk like this to Harry, when there's something they want him to know but are too involved in their intricate games of diplomacy. In Cold Days three different Sidhe nobility try to slyly tell Harry something, but because they're so oblique he nearly misses it. In retrospect, it should have been a warning sign when Maeve, the Winter Lady was the only one speaking in clear declarative sentences.
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Could Say It, But... / int_4277c036	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_4277c036	comment	In Platinum Pirate, Lucas tells Luffy about Gecko Moria being in the Florian Triangle. Given that Luffy doesn't want to be Lucas' "subordinate" and Lucas only said he was his subordinate so that the Straw Hats wouldn't get arrested by Sengoku, so...
Could Say It, But... / int_4277c036	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_4277c036	featureConfidence	1.0
Platinum Pirate (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_4277c036
Could Say It, But... / int_42ffb88e	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: This occurs with a scientist who helps SCP-105 (scroll to Addendum 3) escape the organization. It, unfortunately, doesn't last.
Could Say It, But... / int_42ffb88e	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_42ffb88e	featureConfidence	1.0
SCP Foundation (Website)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_42ffb88e
Could Say It, But... / int_43576f5	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural, "The Monster at the End of This Book": A prophet predicts that Sam and Lilith will hook up. Dean goes to Castiel for help, but Castiel says he can't interfere with divine prophecy and Dean is on his own. Just as Dean is storming off, Castiel stops him and adds that the reason he can't help is that prophets are sacred, and should anything, such as for example a demon, threaten harm to a prophet, an archangel will descend with the wrath of Heaven. Dean catches the hint and brings the prophet along to confront Lilith.
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Supernatural	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_43576f5
Could Say It, But... / int_44e08ee8	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_44e08ee8	comment	On an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, a hotel clerk tells the detectives everything they want to know about a guest in one of her rooms by explaining, at length and with not a hint of irony, exactly what it is she's not allowed to tell them. On another episode, the police aren't allowed to speak to a cult member because his lawyer is in the employ of the cult leader. Gee, Danvers and a couple of detectives get around this by going to his cell and talking to each other about how screwed the poor kid is.
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Could Say It, But... / int_4539f721	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_4539f721	comment	In The Citadel, Denny has a very low opinion of Dr. Gribley, the district medical officer.
Could Say It, But... / int_4539f721	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_4539f721	featureConfidence	1.0
The Citadel	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_4539f721
Could Say It, But... / int_468bebb0	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld does this a lot. From Wyrd Sisters: Also Vimes in Night Watch: "And for close-up fighting, as your senior sergeant I explicitly forbid you to investigate the range of coshes, blackjacks, and brass knuckles sold by Mrs. Goodbody at No. 8 Easy Street at a range of prices to suit all pockets, and should any of you approach me privately I absolutely will not demonstrate a variety of specialist blows suitable for these useful yet tricky instruments." Vimes thinks the dwarf and troll community leaders in Thud! are doing this, by "appealing for calm." We have not received an albatross from the Agatean Empire. It is not asking you to send a Great Wizzard. Continues with "Don't you mean they're NOT Agatean pictograms, sir?" This trope is often subverted when it's tried on Mustrum Ridcully, who's usually too blunt and honest for this sort of underhanded thinking, or Fred Colon, who's merely confused by it. Except, however, in Thud!, when Vimes goes to Ridcully for assistance in catching up with the bad guys (who have fled town). Maybe he's finally got the hang of it. It's hard to tell with Ridcully. In The Truth William desperately needs more paper for the Ankh-Morpork Times, but the person selling it has already promised his entire stock to William's rivals and can't very well go back on his word. And speaking of words, he really needs to have one with his foreman, who seems to have left a loaded cart right by that wide-open gate over there where someone could just sneak in and drive off with it... It's in The Science of Discworld, too. For various reasons, the wizards need books from the future. The Librarian can get them, but he isn't supposed to. Rincewind talks him into it and translates his answer as follows (paraphrased): In Unseen Academicals, Smeems refuses to admit that the candle The Emperor actually goes out, leaving a curious Nutt to ask "How many times has the candle that never goes out, um, not gone out?" and receive the reply "The candle that never goes out has failed to go out three times since I have been Candle Knave."
Could Say It, But... / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Discworld	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_468bebb0
Could Say It, But... / int_4b790c7a	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_4b790c7a	comment	In Iron Man 2, Tony's speech at Stark Expo amounts to "I'm not saying that I'M TOTALLY AWESOME."
Could Say It, But... / int_4b790c7a	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_4b790c7a	featureConfidence	1.0
Iron Man 2	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_4b790c7a
Could Say It, But... / int_4d8e5ec	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_4d8e5ec	comment	The Daily Show: They obviously couldn't stoop so low as to cover Paris Hilton's imprisonment in 2007 — but mentioned that if anyone else wanted to, a good headline for them to use might be "Shawskank Redemption". "I'm not saying Dick Cheney absorbs light. Or that if he were to brush by a plant, that plant would three days later die." "What are you saying, Jon? That Geraldo and O'Reilly are narcissists enthralled with their own overblown egos, projecting their own petty insecurities onto the world around them, inventing false enemies for the sole purpose of bolstering their sense of self-importance, itty-bitty Nixons minus the relevance or a hint of vision? How DARE you?!""I wasn't gonna say that, but..." A similar one with Colbert, when he reviewed the 2004 Oscars in song: "Oh, are you saying it was a tedious exercise in void-filling, Jon? An industry-wide circle-jerk televised for the wanking convenience of a billion drooling wannabes? The one night people in this town pretend quality matters when each and every one of them devotes the better part of their lives to trying to figure out a way to make The Rock a movie star? 'Cause you know what, Jon, you know what, I'm sorry, I don't have a song for that!" [beat] "Though 'Ice Ice Baby' might work." In The Colbert Report, Stephen announced that Viacom had defeated his first attempt at forming a PAC in this way: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah was banned from a Republican event in Iowa when the organizers claimed they didn't want the TDS correspondents to mock the state. Naturally, Jordan Klepper and Trevor Noah lament about how much they respect Iowa and would never make fun of them for having a whole musical that mocks their state already, etcetera...
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Could Say It, But... / int_4dccc4bc	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_4dccc4bc	comment	Thor: The Dark World: Odin tells Thor that, as a King, he cannot officially approve of Thor's decision to stay with Jane, or say how proud of Thor he is for stopping Malekith. "I would speak only from my heart." He then turns out to be Loki under an illusion, making it more ambiguous.
Could Say It, But... / int_4dccc4bc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Thor: The Dark World	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_4dccc4bc
Could Say It, But... / int_5016e2a7	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_5016e2a7	comment	The prologue of the Sarah Caudwell mystery novel The Shortest Way to Hades starts by vehemently denying that the book is fictional; it then goes on to talk about what would have been in the prologue if the book were a novel rather than a historical document.
Could Say It, But... / int_5016e2a7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Hilary Tamar	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_5016e2a7
Could Say It, But... / int_5090b9e6	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_5090b9e6	comment	Subverted in the review of Clive Barker's Jericho: "I could go on listing the stupid design decisions... so I will."
Could Say It, But... / int_5090b9e6	featureApplicability	-0.3
Could Say It, But... / int_5090b9e6	featureConfidence	1.0
Clive Barker's Jericho (Video Game)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_5090b9e6
Could Say It, But... / int_54277b38	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_54277b38	comment	In Deadwood episode "The Trial of Jack McCall" this is combined with some I Know You Know I Know. Sy Tolliver is adamantly denying a man staying at his establishment had smallpox, to the point of claiming he "left" when he was actually dragged out to die in the woods. To get Tolliver to cooperate with a plan for dealing with the disease (and also to make sure important people in town know before a panic starts), Doc Cochran uses statements like "I have no vaccine for the sickness the man in room 8 didn't have" and "the epidemic you have no reason to believe is coming."
Could Say It, But... / int_54277b38	featureApplicability	1.0
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Deadwood	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_54277b38
Could Say It, But... / int_5562711f	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_5562711f	comment	In The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Esteban tells Rick that he can't tell him shit about what he wants to know, and that even if he could, what he's about to tell him wouldn't be it.
Could Say It, But... / int_5562711f	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_5562711f
Could Say It, But... / int_57a3683f	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_57a3683f	comment	Not Always Right: When this writer asked what would happen to their coworker: On a meta level, the site's "anonymising" of workplaces sometimes comes across like this, such as "I work at a certain mountain based sci-fi rollercoaster in a magical themed park run by a mouse". Or this post about heading to Canada for [donut holes], which square-brackets "[donut holes]" every time, to make it absolutely clear that this unnamed Canadian coffee shop franchise calls them something else.
Could Say It, But... / int_57a3683f	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_57a3683f	featureConfidence	1.0
Not Always Right (Website)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_57a3683f
Could Say It, But... / int_5999b1ec	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_5999b1ec	comment	In one of the Xanth books, Gary the Gargoyle is looking for Magician Trent and needs to ask a harpy where to find him. In Xanth, harpies have a reputation for being unpleasant and unhelpful and this is seen as a good thing. Thus, the harpy can't simply tell him what he wants to know, even though he flatters her on her appearance (i.e. calls her ugly, which is a compliment to harpies). Therefore, in order to preserve her reputation of being unhelpful, this exchange occurs:
Could Say It, But... / int_5999b1ec	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xanth	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_5999b1ec
Could Say It, But... / int_5ab2850c	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_5ab2850c	comment	In one story event of Action Taimanin, Aina Winchester loudly proclaims that the Task Force's defences are "so sloppy I could shoot Kotaro's head off" seconds before she does so to let him know to dodge while she can still pretends to work for demons.
Could Say It, But... / int_5ab2850c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Could Say It, But... / int_5c1a9545	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_5c1a9545	comment	In The Practice, Bobby discovers that his and Lindsay's last client, a murderer acquitted on a technicality, was in cahoots with the cop who arrested him. He can't rat out his own client, so he leaves a message for Lindsay, "forgetting" that her roommate DA Helen Gamble always checks the messages first. He then argues that he never intended to convey this information to Helen and she shouldn't be allowed to act on it, knowing the judge will rule against him.
Could Say It, But... / int_5c1a9545	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Practice	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_5c1a9545
Could Say It, But... / int_5d354f8	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: Even though he is forced to obey his programming to obey Rimmer's orders, Kryten does this with Cat and Lister by showing them how he won't allow them to perform a specific set of instructions (which he helpfully lists) to delete a bio-printer's genome database to prevent Rimmer from printing out the crew members stored on file to populate his officer's club.
Could Say It, But... / int_5d354f8	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_5d354f8	featureConfidence	1.0
Red Dwarf	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_5d354f8
Could Say It, But... / int_60570997	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_60570997	comment	Dr. Cook of S.S.D.D. would like to tell you about the anarchists' suspicious order that they actually paid for (for once), but they signed a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
Could Say It, But... / int_60570997	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_60570997	featureConfidence	1.0
S.S.D.D. (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_60570997
Could Say It, But... / int_611c72dc	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_611c72dc	comment	In the Star Trek Novel 'Verse book "Ancient Blood", Worf is at one point openly forbidden from going down to the planet Syndikash to rescue a friend after a botched operation. He therefore asks Picard for permission to go down, rapidly turning into an extensive chain of these.
Could Say It, But... / int_611c72dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_611c72dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek Novel Verse	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_611c72dc
Could Say It, But... / int_6162cbeb	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6162cbeb	comment	In Outbreak, Morgan Freeman's character gets on the mike and tells Dustin Hoffman's character exactly how to interrupt a live bombing run, under the guise of telling him the dire consequences of doing so.
Could Say It, But... / int_6162cbeb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Outbreak	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6162cbeb
Could Say It, But... / int_6209d3ce	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6209d3ce	comment	This is a key point in episode Patient Zero: 3 in Trauma Team: in the third phase of the mission, the government decides to stop the diagnosis of your patient, and he is ordered not to give any more information. To get around this, Gabriel and RONI decide to have a "chat" with their "bud", really getting the symptoms that they need. They even manage to get a visual exam of his chest after the patient integrates fever into his conversation.
Could Say It, But... / int_6209d3ce	featureApplicability	1.0
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Trauma Center / Videogame	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6209d3ce
Could Say It, But... / int_6234f5b3	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6234f5b3	comment	Father Brown: In "The Scales of Justice", Father Brown asks if the evidence presented in the trial is still in the courthouse, only for Bunty's barrister to tell him that it would be completely unethical to tell him that what he he is looking for is in the Storeroom D at the end of the corridor. He then gets up and walks away, 'accidentally' leaving the key lying on the bench.
Could Say It, But... / int_6234f5b3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Father Brown	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6234f5b3
Could Say It, But... / int_659578e7	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_659578e7	comment	Sex Advice Succubus: In one path, Qmin and Chloe discuss possession as a way for ghosts to have sex with living partners. Depending on the player's choice, Qmin may either outright admit to being turned on by the idea, or she may tell Chloe that she is not supposed to talk about her kinks, not even ones that she's recently developed...
Could Say It, But... / int_659578e7	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_659578e7	featureConfidence	1.0
Sex Advice Succubus (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_659578e7
Could Say It, But... / int_660a8ba0	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_660a8ba0	comment	In Unseen Academicals, Smeems refuses to admit that the candle The Emperor actually goes out, leaving a curious Nutt to ask "How many times has the candle that never goes out, um, not gone out?" and receive the reply "The candle that never goes out has failed to go out three times since I have been Candle Knave."
Could Say It, But... / int_660a8ba0	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_660a8ba0	featureConfidence	1.0
Unseen Academicals	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_660a8ba0
Could Say It, But... / int_691be369	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files: The comic book series had an example of this combined with Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee. Scully was doing an autopsy on a person who died under seemingly miraculous circumstances. A woman and her crippled child came to the hospital and asked to see the body of the "saint."
Could Say It, But... / int_691be369	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_691be369	featureConfidence	1.0
The X-Files	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_691be369
Could Say It, But... / int_6c12433c	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6c12433c	comment	Thomas, in White Night: "If there was a meeting of the most powerful hundred or so nobles of the Court scheduled to meet at the family estate the day after tomorrow, I couldn't tell you about it."
Could Say It, But... / int_6c12433c	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_6c12433c	featureConfidence	1.0
White Night	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6c12433c
Could Say It, But... / int_6c39a620	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6c39a620	comment	Ascendance of a Bookworm: The protagonist eventually ends up with a noble identity named Rozemyne, who is officially a different individual from Myne, the commoner identity to which she was born; the fact that the two are one and the same hence needs to be kept from as many people as possible. Benno, a merchant with whom she has many business dealings, is in the loop out of necessity. The morning after Rozemyne is brought into existence, Benno is asked to get an outfit altered so its fits Rozemyne. Upon handing the outfit over to his seasmtress sister Corinna, who has made an outfit for Myne in the past, Benno tells her that the order is for a noble girl named Rozemyne, but also tells her to reuse Myne's measurements.
Could Say It, But... / int_6c39a620	featureApplicability	1.0
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Could Say It, But... / int_6caf3c3d	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6caf3c3d	comment	The Sanity Circus: After a while Attley and Fletch finally manage to get Donovan Sparc, ringleader of the eponymous circus, for a conversation to explain what he knows about all the supernatural stuff they've experienced and been involved in. He spends most of the conversation trying to sate their curiosity while not revealing anything dangerous for them to know or crucial for the Nameless Organisation. The result: Some but not all questions are ultimately answered.
Could Say It, But... / int_6caf3c3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_6caf3c3d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sanity Circus (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6caf3c3d
Could Say It, But... / int_6cd6c4e8	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6cd6c4e8	comment	In iZombie, the private detective Coleman Baker is asked by Detective Babineaux why he was following a murder victim. He explains that client confidentiality means that he can't tell them anything without a warrant... while making sure they can see the photos he just happens to have lying around, which makes it clear who he was actually following, and why.
Could Say It, But... / int_6cd6c4e8	featureApplicability	1.0
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iZombie	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6cd6c4e8
Could Say It, But... / int_6ef684b9	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6ef684b9	comment	There is a short film reel of Porky Pig striking his thumb while hammering a nail and exclaiming, "Oh, son of a b-b-b-uh, b-b-b... gun!" He then laughs and says to the audience, "You thought I was gonna say 'son-of-a-bitch', didn't ya?" This reel was a gag made by Bob Clampett and Mel Blanc and wasn't intended to be seen by the public (reportedly it was shown at that year's staff Christmas party), not a "banned cartoon", as some uploaders claim.
Could Say It, But... / int_6ef684b9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Porky Pig	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6ef684b9
Could Say It, But... / int_6f57482a	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6f57482a	comment	Scoundrels (2010): Cheryl asks Hope what her sister is up to. Hope indignantly protests that Wests don't rat each other out... then, when Cheryl gives in, adds, "Which is why I can't tell you to check her underwear drawer."
Could Say It, But... / int_6f57482a	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_6f57482a	featureConfidence	1.0
Scoundrels (2010)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6f57482a
Could Say It, But... / int_6f6971b5	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_6f6971b5	comment	At one point in one of the Sector General novels, a Maintenance trainee gets lost in the service tunnels; because she's being tested on her navigational abilities, she's not allowed to get directions from anyone. Two other Maintenance workers notice her problem and, without acknowledging her, make several casual comments to each other that happen to include helpful directional information.
Could Say It, But... / int_6f6971b5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Sector General	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_6f6971b5
Could Say It, But... / int_7070c9db	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_7070c9db	comment	In Zodiac, Inspector Toschi shares privileged police information with Robert Graysmith in this way.
Could Say It, But... / int_7070c9db	featureApplicability	1.0
Could Say It, But... / int_7070c9db	featureConfidence	1.0
Zodiac (2007)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_7070c9db
Could Say It, But... / int_733e66c9	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_733e66c9	comment	A variant is used in the Jungle Doctor story Jungle Doctor's Crooked Dealings toward the end of the story. A boy who has been central to the story has talked to a friend about what he wants most of all for Christmas but when Jungle Doctor asks the friend what it was, he is told by the friend that the discussion was in confidence. The doctor then gets around this by asking his friend what the boy would most like for Christmas. The friend laughs and says that since it's a different question, he can answer it. The boy gets what he most wants - to have a disfiguring benign facial tumour removed in time for Christmas and to not know that it's going to happen.
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Could Say It, But... / int_73d7930f	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_73d7930f	comment	Played with in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in which Commander Sisko holds a meeting ordering his staff not to warn the Cardassians of an impending Klingon attack on nearby friendly(ish) Cardassia... while having his measurements taken for a new suit by Garak, the station's Cardassian tailor and a known former Cardassian spy.
Could Say It, But... / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_73d7930f
Could Say It, But... / int_740815bb	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_740815bb	comment	We have not received an albatross from the Agatean Empire. It is not asking you to send a Great Wizzard. Continues with "Don't you mean they're NOT Agatean pictograms, sir?"
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Could Say It, But... / int_750ef0b3	comment	Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: Lady Danbury's maid Coral does not gossip. If she did, she would tell Lady Danbury that there is talk that the House of Lords is concerned for the king's welfare and the crown may be in jeopardy.
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Could Say It, But... / int_755b343f	comment	The Halo series has a few of these. The Crazy Enough to Work plan in Halo: Reach to take out two enemy capital ships by creating an improperly configured hyperspace gateway. In Halo 4, Captain Del Rio of the Infinity orders his subordinates to prevent the Master Chief from leaving. Commander Lasky informs the Chief of this, and explains that in case the Chief had already left, he had a fully-armed Pelican prepped for pursuit. The guards standing in the Hangar bay with the Pelican even salute as the Chief walks up to "steal" it.
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Could Say It, But... / int_76686539	comment	Mass Effect: A hanar proselytizing on the Presidium says, if asked, that it's too humble to suggest the C-Sec officer telling it to go away (since what it's doing is against the law) is biased against it. After a mission where a highly Renegade Shepard is sent to negotiate with an arrogant ass, which is almost certainly guaranteed to end in bloodshed, Shepard asks Admiral Hackett if that was the intention all along. Hackett just replies that the Alliance would never condone assassinations, and also Shepard's a Spectre, so they can't really do anything about it anyway, even if they wanted to.
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Could Say It, But... / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe has this with The Reveal of Pink Diamond's true identity as Rose Quartz in "A Single Pale Rose". Pearl has been the sole sworn keeper of said secret for millennia and was forbidden from speaking a word of it to anyone else; in fact, trying to say anything that could reveal that information has her involuntarily cover her mouth to muffle her voice. When Steven discovers that Pearl is hiding information and confronts her about it, she realizes that she can get around the block by tricking Steven into jumping into her mind and viewing her memories directly.
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Could Say It, But... / int_78974fd8	comment	Done again in Psychonauts 2. Otto Mentalis states that he cannot give his gadgetry to interns, meaning Raz. Then he suggests that, if he were to ask Raz to deliver the gear to Sasha and Milla, and Raz took his sweet time doing so, it wouldn't be Otto's concern.
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Could Say It, But... / int_7950b30f	comment	In The Colbert Report, Stephen announced that Viacom had defeated his first attempt at forming a PAC in this way:
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Could Say It, But... / int_7a36aae5	comment	In The Mikado, Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum are in love, but cannot kiss because Yum-Yum is engaged to Ko-Ko. Instead, they sing "Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted", in which they demonstrate, physically, precisely what it is they won't do.
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Could Say It, But... / int_7de1376e	comment	From Wyrd Sisters:
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Could Say It, But... / int_80942169	comment	One episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide has Vice-Principal Crubbs replace all of the fruity granola bars in the vending machines with his own favorite snack (mini powdered donuts). Moze and Cookie lament their bad luck, and history teacher Mr. Pal overhears. He remarks that the whole situation reminds him of Samuel Gompers, a famous labor organizer who used strikes and peaceful protests to rebel against authority. When an interested Moze and Cookie ask if Mr. Pal is suggesting they do the same, he assures them that as a former principal and current teacher, he certainly isn't saying anything of the kind...but if he wasn't in that position, he would certainly encourage them. It becomes a Brick Joke when Mr. Pal joins in the schoolwide protest at the episode's end.
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Could Say It, But... / int_81ccfb64	comment	The song "I'm Not Saying A Word" from the musical Blood Brothers has Eddie telling Linda, who's frustrated because Mickey won't admit that he has feelings for her, how he himself would treat her... if she wasn't Mickey's love interest. The chorus is him insistently reminding her that this is all hypothetical. They later end up having an affair after Mickey goes to jail.
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Could Say It, But... / int_83c239c	comment	In the beginning of Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Hal Jordan wants to travel to the farthest reaches of the universe to help when it's revealed fellow Lanterns are dying out there. The Guardians of the Universe vote against it as the Green Lanterns out there are on top secret assignments and Hal's currently in hot water for an earlier problem with a diplomat. Ganthet decides to suspend the meeting for a "coffee break" and leads Hal to the mess hall on a "scenic route", which just so happens to show Hal an experimental ship capable of faster-than-light travel that would get him to the far end of the universe in time to be of aid. When Hal question's Ganthet's intent, the Guardian reiterates they're simply taking the scenic route.
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Could Say It, But... / int_863b7825	comment	This happens a LOT in Yes, Minister. Mainly because the Obstructive Bureaucrats need to tell each other things that they shouldn't without actually telling them... 'Hypothetical' situations often feature as did, on one memorable occasion, the simple fact that the person Sir Humphrey wanted to know the PM was talking to was pretty much the only female in the building.
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Could Say It, But... / int_8645d677	comment	Happens in Son of Spellsinger, with a local tradesman telling the heroes where the local evil baron has taken their companion. They agree that, as far as anyone knows, they beat it out of him. He pauses occasionally when telling them to say "Ow."
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Could Say It, But... / int_86be189a	comment	Quantum Leap (2022): In the episode "Fellow Travelers," Janis asks Ian if they used Ziggy to track her down. Ian says, "Well, I'm not at liberty to say that that's exactly what I did."
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Could Say It, But... / int_86c3beca	comment	In the Girl Genius side story "Ivo Sharktooth: Private Jager", Sharktooth believes in client confidentiality, at least officially. However, he also knows his investigation into who stole the snail racing trophy will go a lot faster if people realise he's working for The Heterodyne herself. So he gets some good results by casually saying that he can't mention the name of his client, but she is supposed to be presenting the trophy in three days.
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Could Say It, But... / int_880cfa15	comment	In a radio spot promoting the then-new Hogan's Heroes:
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Could Say It, But... / int_8ba43df	comment	John Wick depicts a world where professional assassins live in a secret society with its own code and rules. Winston, the owner of the New York Continental that caters to these assassins, Winston, holds himself to this code as much as he does anyone else. For that reason, despite sympathizing with John and knowing the location of Viggo Tarasov, with whom John has a personal vendetta, he calls up John to explain that the "Code" forbids him from telling John that "a certain helicopter at a certain helipad is being fueled for a certain someone".
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Could Say It, But... / int_8c86e9e2	comment	In the Content Cop on LeafyIsHere, Ian refers to it as the "anti-insult" and mocks Leafy's tendency to rely on it due to wanting to insult people without backlash:
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Could Say It, But... / int_8cb3a247	comment	In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Mad-Eye Moody would like to tell Harry how to win the first challenge in the Triwizard Tournament, but Dumbledore would frown upon it, so he just gives Harry some "good, general advice" that helps Harry figure out how to win. Moody pulls a similar trick with the second challenge as well: he gives Neville Longbottom a book about rare magical plants, including gillyweed, which gives people the power to temporarily breathe underwater (the second task is rescuing loved ones from the merpeople who live in Hogwarts's lake). When that doesn't work out (Harry doesn't think to ask anyone other than his best friends Ron and Hermione for help), Moody has a loud conversation with Professor McGonagall about whether any of the champions will try using gillyweed in the presence of Dobby the house elf, knowing full well that Dobby will want to help Harry out.
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Could Say It, But... / int_8d7f29ec	comment	In the Glee fic Story of Three Boys, when Casey is in the hospital following his suicide attempt, a nurse tells Dave, Kurt, Puck and Finn that she can't let them go to Casey or tell them anything specific about his condition because they aren't his parents or legal guardians. She can, however, tell them what would generally happen if some hypothetical patient tried to commit suicide in the way Casey did.
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Could Say It, But... / int_8d81bb26	comment	On NCIS, Abby occasionally resorts to this when the Director has told her to keep something from Gibbs. After all, sign language doesn't count as saying anything.
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Could Say It, But... / int_8d84363c	comment	Rome. Cisero urges Brutus to kill Marc Antony, who's turned up at Brutus' house to arrange a truce.
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Could Say It, But... / int_8e969da6	comment	In Meteor: Dr. Bradley needs to convince Dr. Dubov to discuss the technical details of the secret nuclear-missile equipped "Peter the Great" satellite so it can coordinate with the equally secret "Hercules" weapons systems so as to repel the killer meteor Orpheus. Dubov initially does the political thing by playing dumb, until Bradley plainly tells him that if Russia doesn't have such a satellite, Hercules won't be able to do the job alone, and humanity is screwed. Afterwards, Dubov ruefully insists he'd never be involved in such an illegal weapon, but if Bradley would like to talk about how he would design a theoretical Peter the Great... Bradley grabs a pen and paper.
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Could Say It, But... / int_8f8df73b	comment	The Lion King (1994): Scar tells the young Simba that he can't say what's in the shadow land, and moments later says that an elephant graveyard is no place for him.
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Could Say It, But... / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: In one book, Rachel helps Cassie retrieve a paper she doodled on with things like hearts, "Cassie + Jake," and cupids. The ensuing conversation: Also averted in what by tradition should have featured a Could Say It But: The Animorphs are trapped aboard a Yeerk ship by Visser Three, who has used the opportunity to show off to Visser One (Marco's mom), his rival for leadership of the Earth invasion. Suddenly, the cell opens, a dead Hork-Bajir guard slumps to the floor, and another, differently dressed guard gives them crystal-clear directions (Hork-Bajir Controllers usually speak mangled English interspersed with Yeerk words and their own language) on how to get to the escape pod which will take them back to Earth. They do so, getting to the pod and escaping just before they suffer Mode Lock, thus allowing Visser One to make Visser Three look incompetent while disguising it as the 'Andalite Bandits' just getting lucky.
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Could Say It, But... / int_91011b13	comment	A skit by The Whitest Kids U' Know uses this trope with their skit in which they say, "It is very illegal to say 'I want to kill the president'. TOTALLY illegal! I'm allowed to say it to tell you not to say it. On that topic, it is also illegal to say, 'I really want someone else to kill the president, and here are some spots where it would be easy to launch a mortar grenade at him.' Also TOTALLY illegal! Completely!" Here it is. They also do "The Never Song". It starts out straightforwardly telling what kind of behavior that gets you in trouble with your parents and the school, before the third verse which, well...
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Could Say It, But... / int_914ba844	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_914ba844	comment	In The Wizard of Oz Auntie Em uses this as an insult against Miss Gulch. She says she's been waiting to tell Miss Gulch what she thought of her, "but being a Christian woman, I can't say it."
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Could Say It, But... / int_93489ff	comment	Dungeon Crawler Carl: Carl and Donut's publicity manager, Zev, has faced "unspeakable things" being done to her family to ensure she stays in line. When Carl disrupts the Dungeon by bombing a city full of vital NPCs, Zev is just appalled, and goes on to tell him in a great deal of useful detail what kind of damage he's caused.
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Could Say It, But... / int_97a70962	comment	The Professionals. In "Where The Jungle Ends", a politically-connected organised crime boss is discovered to be hiring the Villain of the Week for a big job. Cowley suspends Bodie and Doyle pending investigation, supposedly after receiving an anonymous allegation of brutality against them. "So whatever you do in this case is outside my responsibility."
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Could Say It, But... / int_998cbda3	comment	Here's an example: during production of the third season of Daredevil (2015), it was a no-brainer that Foggy Nelson's girlfriend Marci Stahl would be returning, since Foggy had ended the second season working with her at Jeri Hogarth's law firm. While Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock), Deborah Ann Woll (Karen Page), Elden Henson (Foggy) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Wilson Fisk) were confirmed right before filming began, the closest Marci's actress Amy Rutberg could get in interviews to saying she was playing Marci in season 3 without actually saying it was to say things like, "I have a super secret project Iâ€™ve been working on since November that will be out later this year," knowing that someone aware of Marvel's reputation for secrecy, and the fact that Daredevil season 3 had begun filming in mid-November 2017, would read between her words.
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Could Say It, But... / int_99f8c7fb	comment	A book published by Have I Got News for You had a dig at MP Rupert Allason: "...given Mr Allason's fondness for pursuing libel actions, there are also excellent legal reasons for not referring to him as a conniving little shit". Allason did indeed sue for libel, and lost.
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Could Say It, But... / int_9bcc183b	comment	The narrator of "Our Lady of Paris", or The Hunchback of Notre Dame, as it's more famously known, refuses to describe Quasimodo's face, because it's too shocking to imagine. In fact, he refuses in explicit and numerous detail.
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Could Say It, But... / int_9c657880	comment	The IMF Secretary talking to Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible â€“ Ghost Protocol:
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Could Say It, But... / int_9ce851a3	comment	In Malcolm in the Middle, Reese joins the army, and the military bureaucracy stifles Lois' attempts to find him. Of course, being Lois, she quickly bonds with Reese's sergeant over their shared views on handling teenagers.
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Could Say It, But... / int_a04b0ca3	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_a04b0ca3	comment	From the Tintin episode "Red Sea Sharks":
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Could Say It, But... / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama : In "The Problem With Popplers", Bender cuts a deal where he gets paid for whenever people eat the eponymous food item. Once Leela finds out Popplers are sapient, she ropes Bender into joining her protest, which he sabotages by telling people about the wide variety of tasty sauces you shouldn't eat them with. Farnsworth also gets a variation in:
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Could Say It, But... / int_a2c37f38	comment	From Planescape: Torment: You go to a wizard who put a spell on a person who now wants it taken off. You convince him to help and he tells you something like: "Alas, I am forbidden to help you. I can't show you this book, and I am most certainly not going to tell you to go to this page and figure out what to do." Then he turns around and hums to himself.
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Could Say It, But... / int_a2dee471	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_a2dee471	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has the "nice girls who never spread rumors" on Windfall Island, who won't tell you anything even if you pay them Rupees. Though sometimes they really don't have anything to say.
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Could Say It, But... / int_a33c20a6	comment	In an episode of Covert Affairs, Annie's superiors are investigating someone she knows under the assumption that they're a spy. Annie disagrees with the approach, as she's sure they're innocent. Auggie's advice: In another episode, Auggie gives Joan an ultimatum: allow him access to some top secret files or he quits. Joan tells there's no way she could possibly break that many rules to give him access. She then informs him that she's having some trouble accessing the files, she is going to have to call tech support and read them her access code, and under no circumstances should he still be in the room; does he understand what she's saying?
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Could Say It, But... / int_a656a587	comment	In The Truth William desperately needs more paper for the Ankh-Morpork Times, but the person selling it has already promised his entire stock to William's rivals and can't very well go back on his word. And speaking of words, he really needs to have one with his foreman, who seems to have left a loaded cart right by that wide-open gate over there where someone could just sneak in and drive off with it...
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Could Say It, But... / int_a70ced0c	comment	The Daily Show with Trevor Noah was banned from a Republican event in Iowa when the organizers claimed they didn't want the TDS correspondents to mock the state. Naturally, Jordan Klepper and Trevor Noah lament about how much they respect Iowa and would never make fun of them for having a whole musical that mocks their state already, etcetera...
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Could Say It, But... / int_a86661f2	comment	In Rutherford Falls, the mayor's assistant is extremely careful with his phrasing:
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Could Say It, But... / int_a90d239a	comment	In Psychonauts, Sasha tells Raz that he can't teach him how to shoot psychic blasts, as he's not signed up for the camp. He then tells him that there is no way he could possibly use the secret underground railway to meet with Ford Cruller and obtain a training badge that would let Sasha train him. Five minutes later, Raz returns with the badge. Done again in Psychonauts 2. Otto Mentalis states that he cannot give his gadgetry to interns, meaning Raz. Then he suggests that, if he were to ask Raz to deliver the gear to Sasha and Milla, and Raz took his sweet time doing so, it wouldn't be Otto's concern.
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Could Say It, But... / int_a92653e1	comment	The Executioner. In Chicago Wipeout, Mack Bolan goes to an anti-corruption lawyer who's been crippled and ostracized for his efforts, and asks for the names behind the Chicago Mafia. Aware that he would be naming these people for a Vigilante Execution, the lawyer can't do it, as he's served the law all his life. Bolan respects his choice and goes to leave, but then the lawyer starts going on about how he wishes someone would just steal his file with all the information he's compiled, as he's sent it to every crime commission in the country to no effect...
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The Executioner	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_a92653e1
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Could Say It, But... / int_a9299e4d	comment	In Wellington Paranormal, Officers Minogue and O'Leary encounters Nick, a local vampire, and group of shady men in black robes in a pack, in the dead of night, wielding touches and chating, as they walk in circles around a naked, clearly terrified man, tied to a stake. When Minogue and O'Leary tries to figure out what is happening, Nick's victim tries to appeal to O'Leary and Minogue for help this way, because Nick has used his Compelling Voice to prevent him from calling directly for help. Unfortunately for him, Nick quickly cottons on to what he is trying to do:
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Could Say It, But... / int_a993be1f	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_a993be1f	comment	During one sequence in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, while controlling a protocol droid, you can (and eventually must) convince another droid that it has already violated its "ethics programming". The following ensues:
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Could Say It, But... / int_ac4b6a62	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Recurring gag on Questionable Content: "I could make some sort of obvious 'who are you and what have you done with the real Pintsize' crack, but it'd just cheapen the moment."
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Questionable Content (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_ac4b6a62
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Could Say It, But... / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: "The Sweaters" has Gumball and Darwin seemingly challenged to a fight (it's actually just a tennis match) with very strange students from another school. Neither one wants to fight, and try to consult an authority figure. Mr. Small talks about how he would never condone such a thing, but that it would be noble and he wouldn't be looking. Principal Brown insists fighting isn't OK, then gives lengthy "hypothetical" instructions on how to beat someone else up with their shoe.
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Could Say It, But... / int_ad283518	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ad283518	comment	The British satirical magazine Private Eye is regularly sued for libel. On one occasion — Arkell v Pressdram (Pressdram being the Eye's publisher) — the plaintiff's lawyers sent a letter saying, "[Mr Arkell's] attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply." The Eye felt that they had Arkell — a local politician caught taking bribes — dead to rights and would win in court.note In the English law of defamation (that is slander and libel), this is very difficult, as unlike, say, American defamation law, the truth is not an absolute defense: even if a statement was true, a defendant could, historically at any rate, still lose if the plaintiff could show that the defendant didn't know that it was true and published anyway. What follows is the sheer chutzpah of someone confident their case is iron-clad. Naturally, this was their reply:
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Could Say It, But... / int_af7aead4	comment	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: John Oliver's discussion of Sex Education in the United States highlighted at one point the tactics of a former Mississippi educator named Sanford Johnson who wanted to explain how to use a condom, despite state law forbidding the use of condom demonstations. His solution combines this trope with Unusual Euphemism: Showing students how he likes to put his socks on his feet. In his expose on warehouses, when talking about XPO Logistics' incident in October of 2017 involving a worker who died due to heat stroke, he brings up that despite coworkers posting about it on Facebook, XPO denied the claim with their own internal investigation, which was delivered verbally, leading John to give us this.
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Could Say It, But... / int_b0544c4d	comment	In Super Robot Wars Z 2, Ozma Lee (who is a member of a legitimate organization that's been taken over by a corrupt government) allows Setsuna (who's an old friend of their's from a previous war, but is technically a terrorist according to their new corrupt bosses) to escape by firing a near miss and loudly ordering his men (who also are old friends and don't really support their boss either) to "Not allow the Gundam to reach the unguarded escape route at point A". Setsuna promptly heads to said unguarded escape route.
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Could Say It, But... / int_b0db8501	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_b0db8501	comment	Freshy Kanal: In "Donald Trump vs. Mr. Burns" rap battle, when Burns compares Trump's duck-face to Donald Duck, he notes that he "can't legally say Disney overplayed their remakes".
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Could Say It, But... / int_b23379ff	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_b23379ff	comment	Shakespeare does it again in The Taming of the Shrew. Grumio spends a long monologue telling another servant how he could tell him all the mad things that happened on Petruchio and Kate's journey, but he's going to take it with him to his grave.
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Could Say It, But... / int_b29a69ec	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_b29a69ec	comment	What You Knead: Kakashi uses this multiple times to impart information to his students. While the Sandaime's orders prevent him from telling Naruto directly about his parentage, he's allowed to share stories about his old team leader and his eventual wife. When Naruto finally starts suspecting something, Kakashi then uses this to let him know that he's right on track, as well as warning him that Sarutobi was responsible for his inability to reveal everything outright. Along similar lines, when Team Seven asks for tips about the second part of the Chuunin Exams, he declares that he can't share any tips, and that he "definitely wouldn't recommend to pack the way you would have if you'd known about Zabuza and Haku in advance."
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Could Say It, But... / int_b4996199	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: In the finale of the six-part The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) story "The Assassin Nation Plot", Captain America and Silver Sable tried to get security clearance for Spidey on a mission they believed would lead them to the mastermind behind the plot, using plans obtained from a captured mook, but a general at the Pentagon wouldn't allow it, as Spidey's identity couldn't be confirmed. Partially through the story, Spidey found them and told them he believed the plans given were a ruse to distract them; however, Cap wasn't able to defy orders to check on that. He did, however tell Spidey where the mook's cell was, saying "Maybe I'll re-question him later". Then he and Silver left him alone. (In the Pentagon, no less.) Spidey didn't know whether that was Cap's way of making an informal suggestion or not, but he took the opportunity, and it paid off.
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Could Say It, But... / int_b659836d	comment	At the beginning of the Aldmeri Dominion quest lines in The Elder Scrolls Online the Player Character gets set up and thrown in jail. An agent of the queen knows what happens and bails you out and enlists you to help solve the greater issue at hand. A few quests later, that agent suggests the player deliberately get captured, in order to lower the guard of the double agents they were hunting, so that the agent can secretly spring the player out again and sneak the targets. When he arrives to break the player out, the player asks if the agent is planning to make fun of him for "The jail thing." The agent says that "This one would never note that this is the second time he is saving you. From jail. In less than a month. Not out loud, anyway."
Could Say It, But... / int_b659836d	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Elder Scrolls Online (Video Game)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_b659836d
Could Say It, But... / int_b8b2e6aa	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_b8b2e6aa	comment	In Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings, a talking fountain outside an abandoned park seems determined not to seem helpful...
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Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_b8b2e6aa
Could Say It, But... / int_b940243b	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_b940243b	comment	The Barretts of Wimpole Street: Part of Edward's passive-aggressive (but mostly aggressive) behavior towards his daughter Elizabeth, who is chafing under the dictatorial, tyrannical control Edward is exerting over her life.
Could Say It, But... / int_b940243b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Could Say It, But... / int_ba3d2748	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: Bob circumvents his insurance company's obstructive attitude to help his customers by saying that he "can't" give them the exact instructions to help them. He even whispers "Pretend to be upset" to the old woman as she leaves. His boss, Mr. Huph, finds out and is displeased with him, and when Bob asks if they shouldn't help their customers, replies, "The law requires that I answer no"- to him, it's more profitable to refuse to pay people on a technicality, but he can't actually say it.
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The Incredibles	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_ba3d2748
Could Say It, But... / int_bb834769	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_bb834769	comment	"If I Loved You," the most famous song from Carousel, is all about this — the main characters describe all of the things they would say if they loved each other, but of course they don't feel that way, so they won't.
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Carousel (Theatre)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_bb834769
Could Say It, But... / int_bf6614f1	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_bf6614f1	comment	In The Parent Trap, the Evers' housekeeper, a flagrant busybody, would often conclude her gossip with "But I'm not saying a word, not one single word".
Could Say It, But... / int_bf6614f1	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Parent Trap (1961)	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_bf6614f1
Could Say It, But... / int_bfa1d565	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_bfa1d565	comment	Played for drama in Boston Legal; Alan Shore tells a client that as a member of the bar, he can't advise him to run. However, he is allowed to tell the client that if they go forward, the client will be found guilty and that a legal victory is no longer possible in his case. He is later defended by Denny for saying that, as legally, he did not break the law.
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Could Say It, But... / int_c0105f18	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_c0105f18	comment	In the final episode of The Bionic Woman, our heroine decides to leave OSI only to find Resignations Not Accepted. She has a major falling out with OSI director Oscar Goldman, but he eventually decides to give her a Mercy Lead.
Could Say It, But... / int_c0105f18	featureApplicability	1.0
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Could Say It, But... / int_c34ab4c	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_c34ab4c	comment	This Bites!: A new living weapon is being tested within Impel Down, and Chief Warden Magellan is not happy with the rampaging beasts injuring his staff and their general disruption of the prison's activities. When Luffy breaks into Impel Down looking for his brother and finds out about the warden's opinion, one of the BioMEGAs shows up during their fight, leading to this exchange.
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Could Say It, But... / int_c34f83b2	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_c34f83b2	comment	Near the end of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, after the students learn that they have to figure out who the traitor is or they'll all be killed, they lament that they have no idea where to even begin. However, Chiaki then asserts that the traitor is someone who couldn't help out even if they wanted to. The other students are confused, but soon realize that this inexplicable knowledge was a confession. The final trial reveals that this roundabout method was necessary because Chiaki was an AI programmed to never reveal her identity, and she had to be indirect in order to save the remaining students.
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Could Say It, But... / int_c3d129cd	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_c3d129cd	comment	Early in High School DÃ—D, when Issei is hellbent on rescuing Asia, Rias firmly tells him that even though a Pawn like him could promote behind enemy lines, like at the church Asia was being held in, that wouldn't be enough and he certainly shouldn't go alone, before stepping out with Akeno. Kiba points out to Issei that even an example demarcation counts, and he and Koneko should just go with him. The person Rias was decieving here was Issei, to maximize his willpower when that was the only thing he had going for him. She and Akeno actually went to the exact same place, neutralizing the guards before the others got there.
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Could Say It, But... / int_c4282b71	comment	In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic To Be a Better Stallion, Rainbow Dash has a run in with Amethyst, an old friend of Prince Blueblood who happens to be married to one of the Wonderbolts. Amethyst decides to quell Rainbow Dash's disappointment that she's just there on personal business and there's not going to be a Wonderbolts show by telling Rainbow "There's a non-disclosure agreement forbidding me from telling you that you're being considered for a Wonderbolts tryout. So I'm not going to tell you. Because that would be wrong."
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Could Say It, But... / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Frontier in Space": The Draconians use this to get around ordering anything illegal. They want to get hold of the Doctor and his companion, who are imprisoned by the humans they are in a Cold War-esque conflict with. The Fourth Doctor, while mocking a Bond One-Liner: "I suppose you could say the yolk's on him if you were the sort of person who said that sort of thing, which fortunately I'm not." And the Eleventh Doctor, at the end of "Victory of the Daleks". Bracewell has just turned out to be an android built by the Daleks, and he expects the Doctor to deactivate him. The Doctor and Amy talk pointedly about how they're going to go away and do something else for half an hour, but Bracewell takes a while to get the hint. Again, in "The Impossible Astronaut", the Eleventh Doctor insisting: "Canton, on no account follow me into this box and close the door behind you!" "The Tsuranga Conundrum": General Eve Cicero, one of the other patients on the ambulance spaceship the Doctor and her companions have wound up on, is concealing her true medical condition. The remaining medic, Mabli, says that she can't tell the Doctor anything on the grounds of patient confidentiality, but suggests she ought to examine General Cicero.
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Could Say It, But... / int_c5d0768d	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_c5d0768d	comment	Late in Aunt Dimity: Detective, there's a meeting to sort out the events around Prunella Hooper's death. After Sally Pine insults her paganism for the second time during that meeting, local witch Miranda Morrow says, "I'll never tell a soul that I saw you that morning, coming out of Crabtree Cottage." Said cottage was the site of Prunella's death.
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Could Say It, But... / int_ca07828e	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ca07828e	comment	The Unit: the lawyer played by Rebecca Pigeon tells Molly that "I cannot" advise Molly to secretly tape someone to use for blackmail, "as that would be illegal."
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The Unit	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_ca07828e
Could Say It, But... / int_ca08598f	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ca08598f	comment	In The Wire episode "The Pager", when Jimmy McNulty is complaining about his ex-wife's latest legal shenanigans, he informs Kima Greggs (who is female) exactly how a "less-enlightened man" might respond.
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The Wire	hasFeature	Could Say It, But... / int_ca08598f
Could Say It, But... / int_ca5d97f1	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus has a sketch in which the Pythons apologize for various implied insults they "didn't intend to imply" about politicians... going into extensive detail on just what insults they didn't mean to imply. Also did this with another politics-related sketch, involving by-elections. Monty Python did this sort of thing at least partly to send up BBC broadcast restrictions on what you weren't allowed to say about British politicians on the news, as a censorship protest. Furthermore, it is not BBC policy to get easy laughs with words like 'bum', 'knickers', 'botty' or 'wee-wees'. Or 'Semprini'.
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Could Say It, But... / int_cb253a70	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_cb253a70	comment	Used several times in Breathedge: At one point your suit's AI recognizes that you need confidential information about the Breathedge corporation to survive, which its programming will not allow it to tell you. However, its programming does allow it to point out that there are numerous other suits around with the information which could be forced to reveal it using a drill. Shortly afterwards, your suit explains that "Unfortunately, due to the security protocol, I cannot tell you that the special magnets built into his engineering boots can be used to illegally open the back panel of Breathedge coffins" and then goes on to explain that it has "no right to explain" about the confidential features in the coffins that make doing this necessary, which it proceeds to detail.
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Could Say It, But... / int_ccae327f	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ccae327f	comment	The Spoony Experiment, "Let's Play Phantasmagoria": "I just want you guys to know, in a minute I could make a 'Curtis coming out of the closet' joke, but I'm not going to. Because I'm better than that."
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Could Say It, But... / int_d5166b45	comment	In Halo 4, Captain Del Rio of the Infinity orders his subordinates to prevent the Master Chief from leaving. Commander Lasky informs the Chief of this, and explains that in case the Chief had already left, he had a fully-armed Pelican prepped for pursuit. The guards standing in the Hangar bay with the Pelican even salute as the Chief walks up to "steal" it.
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Could Say It, But... / int_d5bd2a20	comment	The Book of Mormon: Captain Moroni, when negotiating a prisoner exchange, informs Ammoron that he could talk to him about how the sword of God's justice hangs over him, how hell awaits for murderers like Ammoron and his brother Amalickiah, but that it would be pointless to make such arguments to "a child of hell", so he's just going to make an offer instead. Ammoron is not amused.
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Could Say It, But... / int_d68df17d	comment	On Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson did this as a way of sneakily previewing a car (an Aston Martin V8 Vantage) he wasn't technically allowed to announce yet. The other two presenters played along with a chorus of "I would have really like to hear that" and "Oh, I wish you could have told us that."
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Could Say It, But... / int_da02c1ef	comment	In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, TEC gives Peach a quiz. The first few questions are of things Peach and the player know already, but soon, he starts asking about Grodus' Evil Plan as a roundabout way of telling her about it without telling her.
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Could Say It, But... / int_daa2340b	comment	In the Dr. Thorndyke story "The Aluminium Dagger", Inspector Badger assures Mr. Curtis that his daughter isn't a suspect, and makes a point of saying that he won't even ask if she is left-handed — thereby learning, from Mr. Curtis's involuntary reaction, the answer to the question he isn't asking.
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Could Say It, But... / int_dbb1ac0c	comment	Excalibur: In one special, Brigadier Alysande Stuart explains to Excalibur that she has no right to give them orders as to how to deal with the current crisis, but if she did, these are the orders she would give them. They take the hint.
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Could Say It, But... / int_dca06c7f	comment	In Tales of MU, Sooni assures the residents of her dorm that she isn't going to use the protagonist's demonic heritage against her in their floor's election for school Senate. Just a few seconds earlier, she had implied that said half-demon wanted to eat their relatives.
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Could Say It, But... / int_e22d14c0	comment	In Tacoma, the titular space station has experienced what ostentatiously appears to be an accident, in form of a freak metro strike which has knocked out the oxygen supply and disrupted the commutations array, however this is actually intentional sabotage on behalf of the company who runs the space station, who is planning to kill the crew and Make It Look Like an Accident so they can further a sinister political agenda. The only one who knows the truth and is in a position to warn the crew is ODIN, the Benevolent A.I. who oversees the space station. But he has been given a strict directive by the company to hide the truth from the crew, and keep communications turned off. However, ODIN finds a way to circumvents this directive by, instead of outright telling the crew the truth behind the "accident", he tells the crew member Sareh about a normally locked door in the Network Technology area of the space station, which just so happens to be have just been conveniently unlocked, emphasizing that she could investigate it, and adds while he is obligated to tell her that it would be a violation of her employment term and could open her to legal persecution from the company, he cannot be prevent her from doing so. Said room contains ODIN's saved logs of the corporate plot he has been order to keep under wraps, along with the manual override for turning the communications array back on, allowing the crew to call for outside help and gather evidence against the coporation.
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Could Say It, But... / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles uses this to deliver stinging reprimands several times, most notably in "Revelations": "I won't remind you that the fate of the world often lies with the Slayer. What would be the point? Nor shall I remind you that you've jeopardized the lives of all that you hold dear by harboring a known murderer." Buffy and Willow also plan to steal books from Giles' office in this manner in "Halloween":
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Could Say It, But... / int_e3ec6dd6	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_e3ec6dd6	comment	In L. Jagi Lamplighter's Prospero Lost, Theo gives them advice on an Ouija board down to using it on Wednesday if they can't wait for a high holy day — not that he would know.
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Could Say It, But... / int_e46d33d6	comment	Encanto features the song "We Don't Talk About Bruno," a song that is entirely about Bruno.
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Could Say It, But... / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis, in an episode where Ronon is considering leaving Atlantis, has Shepherd saying that he'd tell Ronon that he was a valuable member of the team and it would nigh-impossible to replace him and they'd miss him if he left... but he already knew that, so he wasn't going to tell him.
Could Say It, But... / int_e4732abc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Could Say It, But... / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: In "Faithful unto Death", after Barnaby finds out that he was given drug-laced brownies, he visits the elderly couple in question and claims to be investigating reports of drugs being grown in the area, using very pointed phrasing to make it clear he knows about their illegal activities and is giving them a warning to stop before he has to throw the book at them.
Could Say It, But... / int_e6318baf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Could Say It, But... / int_e7327ca8	comment	In 1941 (1979), Dan Aykroyd's character has to leave an antiaircraft gun at a civilian location. He then proceeds to tell the family in ridiculously specific detail every single thing they should not do, and the specific order they should not do it in. This may be a subversion, given his character—he may have been genuinely telling them what not to do. In any event, Ned Beatty uses the steps in the warning later in the film on to fire on a Japanese sub (accidentally firing through his own house in the process).
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Could Say It, But... / int_e9c57346	comment	A similar one with Colbert, when he reviewed the 2004 Oscars in song: "Oh, are you saying it was a tedious exercise in void-filling, Jon? An industry-wide circle-jerk televised for the wanking convenience of a billion drooling wannabes? The one night people in this town pretend quality matters when each and every one of them devotes the better part of their lives to trying to figure out a way to make The Rock a movie star? 'Cause you know what, Jon, you know what, I'm sorry, I don't have a song for that!" [beat] "Though 'Ice Ice Baby' might work."
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Could Say It, But... / int_ea787cd1	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ea787cd1	comment	This line from the Forgotten Realms novel Shadows of Doom, spoken by an unseen guard: Sadly, precisely the wrong person also overhears him, is not amused, and kills him right in the next line before he can say anything else.
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Could Say It, But... / int_eb049de6	comment	Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Mycroft Holmes, as an employee of the British government, isn't allowed to say that France and Germany are on the brink of war, but he can say that two prominent European countries are preparing for war with each other and the main languages spoken in those two countries are French and German.
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Could Say It, But... / int_eb3f3551	comment	From Mass Effect: Andromeda: During one quest Ryder has to find dock records for an angaran, but the dock manager of Kadara Port can't help them. He also can't tell them to look in the records computer over there, nor can he tell them the exact code needed to access the files. If Ryder manages to bargain the krogan into letting the Initiative set up a colony on Elaaden, Director of Colonial Affairs Foster Addison will comment that Acting Initiative Director Tann will object (he hates krogan). One of the player's choice of responses is "fuck Tann", resulting in this exchange:
Could Say It, But... / int_eb3f3551	featureApplicability	1.0
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Could Say It, But... / int_ec80dae4	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ec80dae4	comment	Zero Punctuation: Subverted in the review of Clive Barker's Jericho: "I could go on listing the stupid design decisions... so I will." Played straight more commonly. Pretty much anytime a game has a lot of Ho Yay moments, Yahtzee will comment that he won't stoop to making gay jokes.
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Could Say It, But... / int_ee5e6821	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_ee5e6821	comment	Subverted in an episode of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, where an HR representative tries to get across to his friend that "Of course I can't talk about the upcoming layoffs, but I especially cannot tell you that your job is safe", which his friend mistakes for this trope played straight, despite the HR guy getting more and more explicit about precisely what it is he can't say. The punchline is that the reason he's so confident about his job security is that "I'm one of the best detectives on the force!" Played straight in a sketch in one episode, where a psychiatrist tells a patient he cannot tell her what decision to make, whether to stay with her loving husband or run away with her psychotic stalker in a continuation of her pattern of stupidly self-destructive behaviour... he can only guide her. Eventually, he gets so fed up of her indecisiveness he has to tell her anyway.
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Could Say It, But... / int_eee7448f	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_eee7448f	comment	In Dora Wilk Series, Miron absolutely wouldn't tell Nisim that Katarzyna may be behind his recent problems.
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Could Say It, But... / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager. In "Thirty Days", Tom Paris tells an alien that the Prime Directive forbids him from becoming involved in the internal affairs of their race. Unless, of course, someone makes a direct request...
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Could Say It, But... / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: In a '70s Fantastic Four (1961) arc, Reed Richards bluffed Galactus into leaving the Earth alone with a fake Ultimate Nullifier. After Galactus left, the Watcher, who was bound by his code of ethics to never interfere with other living beings, revealed that he had telepathically entered Reed's mind to prevent Galactus from sensing his plan, claiming he was simply observing the event from Reed's point of view. As he left, he added "Can one help it if one's mere presence brings about a more desired outcome? Can one?" This tends to be Uatu the Watcher's shtick. Despite not allowed to interfere into events of the Marvelverse, he finds ways of loopholing his way to help. The heroes have gotten to the point where Uatu can deliver warnings merely by turning visible — everybody knows that he watches when something truly dangerous or important is happening, so the mere knowledge that he's watching and he wants them to know he's watching is enough.
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Could Say It, But... / int_f215385e	comment	In For Life, Aaron brings very light charges against two cops who killed an unarmed black man, as part of a longer game with the ultimate goal of hitting them with second degree murder and manslaughter charges. When he brings these charges, the victim's widow asks if he'd planned it that way or if he was just bowing to pressure from the community. His answer: "I can't answer that. By law".
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Could Say It, But... / int_f3280495	comment	SHUFFLE! has a version of this. Ama was/is a volunteer test subject used in an incredibly high risk magical experiment. (She volunteered because she felt she had no reason to live.) It failed, and she was, incidentally, thrown into the human world, where she fell in love, had a child, happy ending etc. Almost 2 decades later, the Gods (and overseers of the experiment) happen to walk past her, and after staring at her for a while, continue walking, talking loudly enough for her to hear:
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Could Say It, But... / int_f6bc8d0c	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_f6bc8d0c	comment	In the episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit! about multilevel marketing companies (MLMs), they at one point appear in front of a backdrop of the Pyramids of Giza, dressed in stereotypical Ancient Egyptian costumes, arguing with their lawyer over not being able to call MLMs "the name everyone knows it by" — that is, a pyramid scheme. Saying that would actually be a criminal accusation subject to legal action by the companies in question, so they can't explicitly come out and use the word, but they sure as hell imply it as hard as they possibly can.
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Could Say It, But... / int_f6c05e8e	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Monica in the episode "The One with the Butt": "Oh, um, Chandler? Y'know, the old Monica would remind you to scrub that Teflon pan with a plastic brush... But I'm not gonna do that." Also the episode where Phoebe promises Pete she won't tell Monica that he still likes her. When the two see each other, Phoebe is torn between wanting to tell her and her promise. Monica just feels like she's talking to Lassie...
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Could Say It, But... / int_f7e45c31	type	Could Say It, But...
Could Say It, But... / int_f7e45c31	comment	In Life Is Beautiful Guido declares his affection to Dora:
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Dangerverse (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Hive Daughter (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Kill Them All (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Little Deceptions (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
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Platinum Pirate (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
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Quiververse (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
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The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The King Nobody Wanted (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Only Hero (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
What You Knead (Naruto) (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
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Back to the Future Part III / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
8 Women / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
First Blood / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Good Morning, Vietnam / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Iron Man 2 / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
John Wick / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
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Knocked Up / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Le Havre / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Leningrad / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Life Is Beautiful / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Meteor / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Milk / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Outbreak / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Sanshiro Sugata Part II / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Thank You for Smoking / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Barretts of Wimpole Street / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Citadel / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Human Factor / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Story of a Cheat / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Thor: The Dark World / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Trapeze / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Zodiac (2007) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Atar Gull / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Aunt Dimity / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Clear and Present Danger / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Dora Wilk Series / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Dr. Thorndyke / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Dungeon Crawler Carl / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Going Postal / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Great Expectations / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Hilary Tamar / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Hoka / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Lyttle Lytton Contest / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Maskerade / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Night Watch (Discworld) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Star Wars: Ahsoka / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Sword with No Name / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Tales of MU / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Book of Mormon / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Dream of Perpetual Motion / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Saint / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Truth / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Thief of Time / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Three For The Chair / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Thud! / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Turn Coat / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Worldwar / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Wyrd Sisters / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Ptitlexc2j6p5n	seeAlso	Could Say It, But...
Assassination Classroom (Manga) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Kagurabachi (Manga) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Sand Land (Manga) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
2PM (Music) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Cabin Pressure (Radio) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (Radio) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (Radio) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
American Auto / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Cadfael / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Chicago P.D. / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Covert Affairs / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Father Brown / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Good Luck Charlie / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Hannah Montana / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
House of Cards (UK) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
House of Cards (US) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Jericho (2006) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Law & Order / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Malcolm in the Middle / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Match Game / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Open Heart / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
QI / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Rutherford Falls / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Strike Back / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Finder / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Games / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Grand Tour / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Vietnam War / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Whitest Kids U' Know / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Tiger King / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
2 Broke Girls / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Victorious / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Wellington Paranormal / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Wings / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Yes, Minister / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
I Am My Own Wife (Theatre) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Julius Caesar (Theatre) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
BackDoor (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Breathedge (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
LEGO Marvel's Avengers (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Love of Magic (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Mouth Sweet (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Nancy Drew (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Pathfinder (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Pathfinder (Video Game) (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Pharaoh (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Prey (2017) (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Tacoma (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Zootopia: Crime Files (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Video Game) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Analogue: A Hate Story (Visual Novel) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Minotaur (Visual Novel) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Princess Waltz (Visual Novel) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Nothing, Forever (Web Animation) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Sanity Circus (Webcomic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Content Cop (Web Video) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Internet Historian (Web Video) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Jimquisition (Web Video) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
SsethTzeentach (Web Video) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Dom Reviews (Web Video) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (Web Video) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Ultra Fast Pony (Web Video) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Digger (Webcomic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Finder's Keepers (2008) (Webcomic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
S.S.D.D. (Webcomic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Square Root of Minus Garfield (Webcomic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
DesuDesBrigade (Website) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Beetlejuice / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Beware the Batman / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Gargoyles / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Green Lantern: The Animated Series / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Minions / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Emperor's New Groove / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Incredibles / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
The Incredibles / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
Aloha (Fanfic) / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...
couldsayitbut	sameAs	Could Say It, But...
Jericho / int_2a7b0247	type	Could Say It, But...

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