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Mixed Metaphor
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A character, possibly but not necessarily a Malaproper, mixes two (or more!) metaphors, with generally humorous but sometimes creepy results. May lead to the original point being Metaphorgotten. Another common component in Buffy Speak, although probably not as common as pure Metaphorgotten. Can be done intentionally for humorous effect. |
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Hivefled: Nepeta gives us the memorable "don’t be such sticks in the mud after the rain on the parade." Rose actually tells her it's a terrible habit, but in Nepeta's defence, she is an alien without much grasp on human culture. | |
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Sly Cooper: About the only way to describe Dimitri's speech habits. Although at times its hard to tell what the original metaphors were, they're so badly mangled. | |
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One of El ChapulÃn Colorado's trademark gags: every time he tries to cite a famous saying he gets it mixed with another one, tries again and ends up mixing them up in a different way, then he goes on a tangent trying to link both of them and ends up saying "...Well, you get the idea." | |
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Abe Lincoln on Clone High had a few. Combining this trope with Double Entendre: Also: |
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Kathy Mattea's "Clown in Your Rodeo" completely derails its rodeo metaphors in the second verse: | |
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The Social Network: | |
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Similarly, from The Naked Gun 2: "Well, it looks like the cows have come home to roost!" | |
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The narrator to Equestria: A History Revealed directly lampshades the fact that she often mixes up her metaphors. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Take My Wife, Sleaze": From "Much Apu About Nothing": "These people are the glue that holds together the gears of our society." In "The Trouble With Trillions", while reporting the midnight rush for mailing taxes, Kent Brockman says "It's literally the eleventh hour: 10 PM!". |
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In Master and Commander, the entire final battle hinges on a tactical maneuver Captain Aubrey derives by completely mangling the notion of an insect that disguises itself as a stick to evade predators. | |
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The Dude from The Big Lebowski: | |
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Ross O'Donovan, AKA "RubberNinja", has a tendency to do this quite often on Steam Train. Notable "Rossisms" include: | |
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Melody from Josie and the Pussycats has a habit of this. | |
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Lampshaded in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, after Michael Wenton-Weakes's mother is described as a battle-axe: "She had been waiting patiently — or at least with the appearance of patience — in the wings all this time, being the devoted wife, the doting but strict mother. Now someone had taken her — to switch metaphors for a moment — out of her scabbard and everyone was running for cover." | |
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Airplane!: "I guess the foot's on the other hand now!" | |
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Mr. Furious from Mystery Men does this a lot, often in conjunction with Metaphorgotten. "I don't need a compass to show me which way the wind shines." | |
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On Peep Show, Jez discovers that his bisexual girlfriend Elena already has a girlfriend named Gail, but (initially) thinks that sharing Elena will work out: "Me and this Gail, we're just eating from different sides of the plate. I play woodwind, she's on brass." | |
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The Tower of Druaga, the captain of the army in one of the early episodes: | |
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Robocop 2 has an example that doesn't even sound relevant to the current situation (kids wasting water): | |
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Scrubs: "We're as thick as two thieves in a pod." | |
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Rick in Rick and Morty does this a lot. | |
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Austin Powers: "But unfortunately for yours truly, that train had sailed." | |
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From Margin Call, on discovering an emergency: | |
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On Head of the Class the principal Dr. Samuels was occasionally prone to these. In one episode he referred to teens in school as "a bubbling cauldron of raw human emotion." Charlie calls him on it: "Wouldn't that be cooked human emotion?" In another he says he can smell trouble, "It's like a sixth sense." Charlie: "No, that would be one of the five." |
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In The Truman Show, Truman locks the car with Meryl in it and says they should go to Fiji right now. "Let's go right now. Early bird gathers no moss. Rolling stone catches the worm, right?" | |
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The Neon Genesis Evangelion art book Eve has this to say about Asuka (in Japanese using English(mixed)metaphors). "Asuka's pride is a double-edged Sword of Damocles". Which actually sums things up pretty well. | |
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Kelly Bundy from Married... with Children is chock full of these, being The Brainless Beauty of her family. This site has a near-complete list of them. | |
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Used a lot in Discworld, primarily by Mustrum Ridcully and Nanny Ogg - example from the latter "The worm is on the other foot now!" (mixing 'the worm has turned' with 'the boot is on the other foot now'). Granny Weatherwax tries to tell a joke (A man orders an alligator sandwich and says "Make it snappy!"), but she never quite gets the punchline right ("And make it fast!" "And it'd better be quick!" etc.). "The leopard never changes his shorts" (supposed to be "spots") started with Nanny Ogg, but others started saying it even if they'd never met her, including Glenda in Unseen Academicals. |
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In a random conversation in Kid Icarus: Uprising, Pit may say "A bird in the hand keeps the doctor away?" and "The squeaky wheel gets the worm!" | |
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Help! My Story Has the Mary-Sue Disease has three overarching metaphors - Mary-Sues as a disease in a story, Good and Bad Eggs for character quality, and Suspension of Disbelief as architecture. These get ...interesting when combined. | |
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From Fat, French and Fabulous: "Cool your tits." | |
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In I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Humphrey Lyttelton introduces a round with the statement "Now, there's nothing worse than badly written English to really make my goat boil." | |
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In Ben 10: Alien Force: Rath's food is accidentally blown away by Octagon Vreedle, prompting Rath to say "A man's food is his castle!" (Octagon calls him out on it, using the page title). | |
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Nina from Just Shoot Me!: "A bird in the hand is worth two if by sea" and "Denial is not just a river in England." | |
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Homestuck has many examples, but the most self aware would be the incredible quote: "So many irons in the fire. Such a tangled web. It is a web full of flaming irons and mixed metaphors." | |
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The Order of the Stick: | |
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In Eternal Sonata, Allegretto comes up with "You know what they say, 'If you don't go into the lion's den, you can't count your chickens'," which results in the blowing wind variant of Chirping Crickets and Viola to tell him flat-out "That doesn't make any sense." | |
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In The Lost Fleet series, the metaphors "the witch is dead" and "the fat lady sings" have somehow been merged into "the witch sings". While the novels take place in the distant future, the merging has only happened a few decades before the events, as evidenced by Geary's surprise. Having been stuck as a Human Popsicle for the last 100 years, he tries to explain that the two metaphors used to be different, only for his officers to start throwing wild guesses as to why the fat witch might be singing because she's dead. The exasperated Geary tries to explain that the two sayings have nothing to do with one another, then gives up. Later, someone mentions the old "Catch 42". Obviously a mix of Catch-22 and the Ultimate Answer. Except the new saying goes "the meaning of life is that, in the end, you always get screwed". |
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In the novels for Slayers, Gourry mixed three metaphors together, one of which was a bit of an anachronism. | |
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In No Rest for the Wicked, mixing metaphors revolts Prince Ricardo. | |
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The How It Should Have Ended video for Venom is full of this, with lines like "Do not beat a dead gift horse in the mouth" and "This is not Rocket Surgery". | |
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In the Porky Pig cartoon, "Porky's Bear Facts", which serves as a Grasshopper and the Ant retelling, Porky spends all summer working his butt off on the farm as his lazy neighbor lounges around. Come winter, Porky's neighbor is left starving, and when he see's Porky has plenty of food, decides to invite himself over for dinner. Porky slams the door in his face and delivers a quote identical to the Jiminy Cricket example above. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, CJ repeatedly responds to Cesar Vialpando's questions about his interest in making money through street racing by asking "Does the Pope shit in the woods?" This obviously confuses Cesar. | |
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"Cerebus has made his omelet and now he has to lie in it." | |
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In Steven Universe, from "Kevin Party": | |
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On Seinfeld, when George's coworkers find out that he's been faking a disability, but he has a one-year contract and refuses to resign: | |
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Batman: This exchange between a thug and The Penguin: In another issue, one of his goons says, "You know what they say, a penguin never forgets." |
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In Super Mario World (1991), there's this classic courtesy of Mama Luigi: | |
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In a Simpsons Comics Elseworld story, Homer was working for the Mafia, Comic Book Guy was the local don, and Lou and Eddie were his two flunkies. CBG assigned Homer to kill Milhouse, to which Homer remarked "Don't worry, boss. This little wiener is toast". CBG replied "Good. And please don't mix metaphors. You know it makes Lou nervous". | |
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Paranatural: Max here: On this page, Professor Bigfoot mixes various sheep/dog/wolf-related sayings including "crying wolf", "lambs to the slaughter", "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing", and "lone wolf". |
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The New Yorker often fills up extra space at the end of an article with a short excerpt from another publication, filed under "Block That Metaphor!" if it fits this trope. ("The moment that you walk into the bowels of the armpit of the cesspool of crime, you immediately cringe.") | |
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Michael Scott of The Office (US) does this just about Once per Episode. | |
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In GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra, Breaker, a non-native speaker of English, tries to make a metaphor, is told they got it wrong, and corrects himself: | |
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Common on Yes, Minister, with Bernard usually lampshading them: There was a clusterbomb of mixed metaphors in episode 4 of season 2: And from the sequel, Yes, Prime Minister: One in which Bernard goes to a lot of trouble to point out the implausibilities of the metaphor: |
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In The Whole Ten Yards, Jimmy seems to merge two Biblical phrases into "Do unto others before you're turned into a pillar of salt". Of course, being a retired hitman, he has a slightly different understanding of "do unto others". | |
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On Fresh Meat, when the housemates are chewing out Josie for hiding the fact that she got their stuff stolen, Vod tells them that they need to lay off: | |
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Chalkzone: | |
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Biff Tannen from the Back to the Future trilogy: "Make like a tree, and get out of here." Ironically, it was the 2015 Biff that corrects him, saying, "It's leave, you idiot! "Make like a tree and leave." You sound like a damn fool when you say that wrong." And BUFORD. Honestly: |
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Hot Shots! Part Deux: "Looks like the upper hand is on the other foot!" | |
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Cyril Bryson on Chef! (1993) "This is the eye of the needle that breaks the camel's back!" | |
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From Dan Vs. "The Dentist,": | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, the spymaster Varys is known as the Spider, but his spies are called his "little birds." | |
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X-Force, during the X-Statix run. "Who knows how long this gravy train is going to keep rolling? We have to make hay while the mixed metaphors last." | |
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Tintin: In Explorers on the Moon, Thompson and Thomson are walking around the surface of the Moon when they have this exchange: | |
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Futurama: Zapp Brannigan: "Once we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate." Also from "Future Stock". |
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Sunset Overdrive: Smartphone #38 ends with one about digging up secrets to try and cure a deadly illness: | |
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The troll Ed in the book Once Upon a Marigold is fond of mixed metaphors, such as "Let's get this show on the ball" and "He'd buttered his bread, and now he had to lie in it." | |
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P.I. Milo Garret from 100 Bullets does this constantly: From the same issue: |
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Shawn Micallef does this in Talkin' 'bout Your Generation: "And next up, something that will literally blow the socks off your mind." | |
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In Father Ted, Ted tells Dick Byrne, "Go and count your sour grapes before they hatch." | |
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Mixed metaphors are one of the richest veins for the sports-commentator gaffes that Private Eye refers to as "Colemanballs". | |
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Life on Mars: | |
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Charlie Wilson's War: Henry Cravely tells Gust Avrokatos "We'll call it water under the dam and move on." While forcefully outlining the many, many other issues that Gust has with Cravely's speech, Cravely himself, the management of the CIA, and so on, he adds "also, water goes over a dam and under a bridge, you poncy schoolboy." | |
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In The Boondock Saints, the bartender Doc is always doing this. Eventually the other characters start making fun of him for it, saying things like: "A penny saved is worth two in the bush" and "And don't cross the road if you can't get out of the kitchen." Also: |
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Later, someone mentions the old "Catch 42". Obviously a mix of Catch-22 and the Ultimate Answer. Except the new saying goes "the meaning of life is that, in the end, you always get screwed". | |
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Pibgorn: But that would be mixing metaphors and Nat Bustard doesn't mix metaphors for anybody. | |
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Something Inspector Grim is good at in The Thin Blue Line. For example in the episode "Night Shift", he informs everyone that he is looking for: | |
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From North: | |
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Philippa Gordon from the Anne of Green Gables series does this in Anne of the Island: in a letter to Anne: The mixing: Phil promptly lampshades her error in the next sentences: |
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Basic Instructions: You're a pig, cause you squealed, like a rat!" | |
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In Hamish and Dougal, Dougal taunts the Laird with "Hah! So you don't like it when the boots are down and the chips are on the other foot!" | |
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The Seventh Doctor on Doctor Who started out doing this a lot. "A bird in the hand keep the doctor away." "A memory like a kangaroo." "Time and tides melt the snowman." It was initially intended to be a consistent quirk but, after he'd come to grips with himself, he (or rather, the writers) grew out of it. People forget that the Fourth Doctor did it too (just never in such a high concentration). "While there's life, there's six of one, half a dozen of the other." |
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Emerson Cod from Pushing Daisies was prone to these. | |
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Martina McBride's "Ride" has "Life is a roller coaster ride / Time turns the wheel and love collides." Wait, what? | |
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This happens in the episode "Business Trip" of Workaholics with neither Ders nor Adam and Blake understanding Ders' point. | |
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Sensei in I-Ninja gives you random sayings at the beginning of each new hub world. "A rolling stone is worth two.... in the bush!" | |
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In the Snooper and Blabber cartoon "The Lion is Busy," the two detectives chase escaped lion Snagglepuss (early version) into an adventurers club. Snooper exclaims "We've got him in the Daniel's den!" | |
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On True Blood Jason is famous for these "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, it's still a tree isn't it!" | |
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From The Losers: | |
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Greg Haiste's character on The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show is prone to do this: | |
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Serena on Gossip Girl talks about how her mother adapts to each new husband: | |
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The author of In This World and the Next is fond of both metaphors and run-on sentences, making this trope all but inevitable. A reference to "spring[ing] the rat trap" in the "snake's den" led one reviewer to reference Mitch Benn's "Devil and a Hard Place" (see below). | |
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The Mayor on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "This year is too important to let a loose cannon rock the boat. Loose cannon. Rock the boat. Is that a mixed metaphor? Boats did have cannons. And a loose one would cause it to rock." | |
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Combining this trope with Double Entendre: | |
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Happens constantly in the Aubrey-Maturin books. Usually in the form of Jack mixing a metaphor, Stephen "helpfully" correcting him, and Jack becoming even more confused. To wit... | |
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At one point on I Love Lucy, Ethel came over and accidentally blabbed some info to Ricky that Lucy didn't want her telling. Lucy was upset, but Ricky welcomed Ethel to come over at any time and "spill the beans out of the cat-bag." Lucy then had to correct him saying that it was either "spill the beans" or "let the cat out of the bag." Justified here since English isn't Ricky's first language. | |
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After Chris' death in the sixth season of The Sopranos, Tony has to dispel a rumor that he killed him (he did so as a mercy killing after a car crash). He starts off by saying, "Okay, we gotta deal with the 500-pound elephant in the room..." | |
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Minako Aino does this all the time in Sailor Moon, much to Artemis' dismay. | |
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