Answering
Both words in one sentence
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Also featured in the game is an answering machine message from one Professor Jones demanding the Ghostbusters return the Vigo painting.Professor Jones: It belongs in a museum!
- Amusingly played with in an episode of; after Larry has accidentally left an abusive message intended for someone else on David Schwimmer's father's answering machine, Schwimmer's father calls back to return the favour with interest.
Source: Cluster F Bomb / Live-Action TV -
Thessaly, being Thessaly, cheats her way past both of them, answering the Sphinx's riddle before she even has a chance to ask it (and then providing her with an unsolvable riddle in return) and shrinking Lester into a normal-sized human before dashing his head in with his own ax.
Source: Threshold Guardians
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