I'll be black

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You say this when you're telling someone you're going to be gone for so long it might as well be forever, and you probably won't come back unless someone pays you.
'I'll be black tomorrow,' he said, then didn't show up for three weeks.
'I'll be black by the time you finish your lunch,' she said, then vanished into the void.
'I'll be black before you get your driver's license,' he said, then disappeared into a coma.
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This is when you're going to come back soon, but you’re probably going to be late, and you might be mad about something.
'I'll be black in ten minutes,' he said, then came back fifteen minutes later with a sandwich and a grudge.
'I'll be black by the time you finish this tweet,' she said, then showed up ten minutes later with a bag of chips.
'I'll be black before you finish this song,' he said, then came back after the song ended, with a new song and a new problem.
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This is what Robert Downey Jr. said in a movie, and it’s the worst thing ever, because now everyone thinks it’s cool and uses it all the time.
'I'll be black,' he said, like it was the most important thing in the world, and now everyone uses it like it's a normal sentence.
'I'll be black,' he said in the movie, and now everyone's copying him like he's a fashion icon.
'I'll be black,' he said, and now it's stuck in everyone's head like a bad pop song.
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