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Throwing petrol around while smoking a cigarette


I only just realised but wouldn't she have set herself on fire almost straight away. I realise she was supposed to be doing it all casually but still.

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That was the joke.

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Joke or no, a cigarette is not a flame and won't ignite gasoline. Try it--you can put out a cigarette in gasoline.

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You might be right but I don't think I'll risk being a human torch merely in the interests of scientific inquiry😷

"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."

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LOL! That was an hilarious scene!

Prostitute: What the *beep* are you doing?
Johnny: I'm gonna kill a bunch of people.
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It somehow reminds me of a succinct news item written by someone and considered a model of snappy journalism. From memory, it goes something like this:
"After a hard day's work, X came home and while bathing his feet in paraffin, lit a cigarette. He might live."

"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."

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Her behaviour in that scene is rather unhinged. It's a funny scene, but who knows, being a hitman's assistant has perhaps taken its toll.
There's also an earlier scene where she has two phone calls going on at the same time, on the one call she is a respectable housewife talking about preparing soup, on the other she is ordering ammunition and becoming quite foul-mouthed about a hitch in the process.

"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."

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She was hilarious, especially when she was "taking down the office."!







Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

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on secretaries & "normal" reality (aka the world in which people don't work as a secretary to an assassin).

Come in earth?? She was freaking hilarious in every word & act.

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Yes she was!





Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.

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Gasoline requires a very specific air-fuel ratio. I used to smoke while filling up and never worried. As has been said, you can put a cigarette out in a bucket of gas. It might ignite if you set it next to a spill of gas but probably not. Open flames are different.

Either way, it's funny.

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