Shadowing Practice: 10 minutes of Ted Mosby - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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I've had no regrets.
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I've had no regrets.
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Hmm.
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Ted, you're staring at my boobs.
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In my defense, they were staring at me.
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Whoa, Ted, that thing you're packing's way too big to fit in that box.
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Yeah, that's what your mom said.
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How dare you?
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No, she actually said that.
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Oh, dear.
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I thought I told you that's just not going to fit in there.
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You really want to spend your last night on Earth playing board games with Marshall and Lily?
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My hands smell weird.
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Smell this.
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Yeah, they do.
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That's new.
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I'll be there in five minutes.
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Even if I meet the girl of my dreams right this second, I'm still one night and nine months away from having a family of my own.
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And that's assuming the mother of my children is just a huge slut.
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Don't lose hope, Ted.
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That slut is out there.
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Want me to find the perfect girl so we can all grow old together?
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That is her.
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Do not let any guy near her, okay?
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That means no waiter takes her order, no busboy clears her table.
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If she bursts into flames, I want a fire woman putting her out.
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I think 911 takes her quest.
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Damn it, or she'll be.
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Why would you come in?
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You heard me shaving!
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I thought you were shaving your face!
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Well, clearly I wasn't!
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I mean, single people can have fun here too, right?
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Oh, I suppose I could arrange a little recreation.
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Do you enjoy sitting on a bench?
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Yes!
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The answer is yes!
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Perfect!
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Mom, Dad, Ted proposed!
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Oh, my God!
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I knew this thing would come!
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Oh, son!
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Yeah, well, we've been on the roof!
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No. What did you do?
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I seriously considered just marrying her out of sheer awkwardness.
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My sister married a guy I didn't like.
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Sandals and socks?
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Come on, buddy.
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But I took her out.
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I am ready to hit the road.
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I got baby wipes.
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I got a variety of jerky.
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I got six cans of tantrum.
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Well, four.
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One burned through the can, the other one I drank already.
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Tantrum!
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Put your hands on buildings.
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Feel the concrete pulse.
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Listen, listen to the stories the stones are telling you.
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And pick up my dry cleaning.
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Don't make a naked lady noise.
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Really?
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There's a train station coming up, just drop me off.
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Okay, but some newfangled train's not gonna stop at the 40-foot-tall Butterchern in Ron Kokama.
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Yes, but unlike any of your 18th-century stops, at least the train will have a 21st-century toilet.
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You're a 21st-century toilet!
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Drain now!
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Fine!
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Should I be worried?
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Oh, just play cool.
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Don't Ted out about it.
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Did you just use my name as a verb?
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Oh, yeah, we do that behind your back.
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Ted out to overthink.
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Also see, Ted up.
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Ted up to overthink something with disastrous results.
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Sample sentence, Billy Tedded up when he tried.
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Okay.
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Hey.
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Hey. Who are you?
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Mitch.
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What you doing, Mitch?
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I'm gonna go.
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Um, when you leave, take the seat cushion with you.
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That's trash now.
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I'll see.
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It's 10 o'clock.
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Damn it!
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Ned, Martin, and Millie, people are trying to sleep.
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Hey, you were young like us once, right?
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I was never like you guys.
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Band is gonna be in demand.
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And luckily, there'll be plenty of supply.
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Supply?
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Demand?
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Dude, do you realize what we just did?
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We used econ.
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We're gonna ace this final!
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We both got zeros.
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This is the eighth outfit I tried on tonight.
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I got my hair cut three times.
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I'm a nervous wreck.
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Are you wearing makeup?
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It's not makeup.
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Okay, it's a sunscreen with a subtle tint of...
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It's made for men.
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Sue me.
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I want my eyes to pop.
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Oh, Zoe.
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There you are.
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Oh, my God.
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You have a monocle.
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Is this real?
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Is this really happening?
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Can you excuse us for a moment?
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Let's go for a walk.
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Good luck killing James Bond.
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Is this milk any good?
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Oh yeah, that totally got me yesterday.
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God, why don't you throw it away?
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I'm good.
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Ted, this is funny.
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Still funny.
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Still fu- and now it's sad.
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Santa.
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Yeah, but that's a good lie.
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Like when we tell Ted he'll meet the right girl and settle down.
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I always find that reassuring.
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You will meet her, buddy.
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You think so?
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Yeah!
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Okay, here goes.
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I do camping in secret.
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I just met her out in the hall.
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We have a lot in common, such as our mutual love of country music, NASCAR and Jeff Foxworthy just go with it.
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She needed a ride out of the city, and we have an extra seat in the car.
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So, okay, let's hit it.
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Celebrating the fact that we don't have to spend it with some dippy guy carting around roses and stuffed toys all night.
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Oh, no offense, Ted.
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None was taken until just 10.
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My end of the year bonus check.
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My God, Barney.
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I work for G&B, too.
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All I got was a $15 gift card to Costa Coffee.
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And you earned it, buddy. Be amazed.
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People fall off ski lifts all the time.
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Well, I gotta hit the head.
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You're an adult with perfectly valid opinions.
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You shouldn't have to apologize for them.
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I'm gonna lie.
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I would.
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St. Peter's, 8.45 a.m.
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It's my favorite service.
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Wait a minute.
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You're able to cross the threshold of a church?
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Oh, I forgot to tell you.
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Your cousin Jimmy had a wonderful time at that spa he visited.
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You mean the spa the judge ordered him to go to to quit cocaine?
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Actually, we're renovating the New York Public Library.
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Wow, Ted, that's huge.
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No, not the New York Public Library.
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It's the new public library in York, North Dakota.
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Their books are in two sections, fishin' and non-fishin'.
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Marshall!
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What the hell?
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How did you...
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No questions asked.
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And then we throw crumpled up beer cans at pigeons.
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I don't do that.
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I totally want to do that.
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One very important thing to keep in mind when designing a bridge.
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Maggie?
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Oh, no. I mean, yes, yes, when you're designing a bridge, always remember, make adjustments, go get it energized.
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No, I really need to talk to you.
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Look, there's no easy way to say that.
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What are you doing?
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What are you doing?
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I'm standing here wearing pants.
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In fact, fire everyone on that project.
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Druthers, Mosby, a whole lot of them.
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Mosby, sir?
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I hear Mosby's doing some great work.
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Fine, Mosby can stay, but tell him he's on thin ice.
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Come here.
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I like you, Crosby.
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Aah!
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Hi-yah!
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Hey!
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One of my worst fears has come true.
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I just saw Marshall grabbing himself naked.
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God, I loved your pancakes.
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So soft, so warm, so perfectly shaped.
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Are we still talking about our pancakes?
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Of course, whatever I say, you're just gonna do the opposite.
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So have a great weekend.
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Good luck screwing up your life.
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Come on, Robin.
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Is it still okay if we borrow the car?
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This wouldn't work.
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Zoe, the Arcadian was a really great building once, but it's falling apart and it's full of snakes.
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I don't recall saying snakes.
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Robin, bronchitis, Barney, massive hemorrhoids.
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Why do you have to say massive?
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If you're gonna miss work for hemorrhoids, they kinda have to be massive.
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I don't wanna sit in a courtroom all day.
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I bet you don't wanna sit anywhere with those hemorrhoids.
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She wrote her number on that wrapper, where is it?
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Uh-oh.
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Hey Dracula, come on, gimme, gimme!
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Where's the chit-chat?
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Observe.
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Shmozby!
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Punchy!
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Punchy!
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Punchy!
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Punchy!
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Punchy!
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Punchy!
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Hey, good talking to you, Ted.
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Yeah, you too.
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If you're ever in New York.
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Definitely.
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We are just two peas.
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Wait, and it's old, and that's interesting.
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Where'd it go?
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Okay, first of all, that is interesting.
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I figured he was just talking to some girl he was trying to nail.
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Poor Ted, but now I don't know.
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Look, she's really hot, okay?
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Dear future Ted, stay away from Natalie, or any girl who can pin you to the ground and beat you senseless in front of a cheering crowd.
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P.S.
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Please consult the therapist about why that turned you on a little bit.
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You hungry?
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What's the point?
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I could eat some food.
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It's just gonna leave me.
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Well, at least in that scenario, you get to do the dumping.
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Ted, what's up?
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You have pretty hair.
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That's what's up.
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And down your back.
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If you call her when she asks you not to, you're just gonna look weak and you're gonna regret it.
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Now listen, whenever you feel like calling her, you come find me first.
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And I will punch you in the face.
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Paula Vincenzo, she's in the bathroom.
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What's wrong with her?
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Total psycho.
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Her Facebook wall has a link to a site about dating inanimate objects.
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For most of last year, she was engaged to a mini-fridge.
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And there's pictures.
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Her in the mini-fridge on a hike.
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Her in the mini-fridge in wine country.
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Here's the mini-fridge, meetin' her parents.
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Run like the wind.
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So, wanna get back to my place?
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Yeah, alright.
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I wanna talk down to him, but that doesn't mean you can't get down with him.
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When two adults wish to procreate, relate together and calculate.
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Leave their meat or spermatozoa, implant themselves in the ladies, oh, but bring it down!
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I'm sorry, don't you need to actually have had sex in order to explain it?
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My new fiancée, she's basically Stella, except she's French, and as you can see, as you can see, she's got enormous chance.
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Enchanté.
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Enchanté.
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Mm-hmm.
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