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Narrator: Whenever I learn a new skill I concoct elaborate fantasy scenarios where it lets me save the day.
Woman: Oh no! The killer must have followed her on vacation!
[[Woman points to computer]]
Woman: But to find them we'd need to search through 200MB of emails looking for something formatted like an address!
Man: It's hopeless!
Offpanel voice: Everybody stand back.
Offpanel voice: I know regular expressions.
[[A man swings in on a rope, toward the computer]]
<<tap tap>>
<<PERL!>>
[[The man swings away, and the other characters cheer]]
{{rollover text: Wait, forgot to escape a space. Wheeeeee[taptaptap]eeeeee.}}
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