Excerpt
I’ll give you one chance at honesty.
Johnny Mercer challenged another Twitter user about a comment he believed had been made about his wife in the Plymouth Herald’s comments section.
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Why it mattered
The opening line became a meme because of its formal, confrontational tone. The resulting jokes repeatedly invoked the Plymouth Herald comment section, which was an unusually local setting for a national Twitter joke.