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A phenomenon that occurs when you're stopped in your tracks or cease to do something that you used to: popularised in today's culture by Skyrim with the famous phrase "I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow in the knee." iterated by guards that pop up in the game. Since Skyrim's release it has found popular use around the interweb, having been parodied thousands of times in youtube videos and comments it has become a meme. The phrase has actually been misinterpreted, the original is " in the knee" and not "to the knee", but since the majority says "to the knee", that's how the phrase is used. The phrase can be applied to any everyday situation by "I used to .... but then I took an arrow to the knee"
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