History Main / SuspiciouslySpecificDenial

* Inverted, as it's not a denial of the bomb which will explode (which is kind of key to it being a suspiciously specific denial).

* ''TeenTitansAbridged'': Starfire says she uses happy thoughts to fly. Raven asks what she thinks of and Starfire says she thinks of Robin. Raven asks if she means he friendship with Robin. Starfire says that's it, and nothing else, and certainly nothing involving chains and hot wax.

'''Marshall:''' I didn't ask that.

-->"You didn't see anything, did you?"\\
"No, sir, I didn't see you [[CowboysAndIndians playing with your dolls]] again!"

** Played again in Sbemail 50. "Everything is fine. Nothing is ruined. This is real."

** Looks similar to [[http://urbanprankster.com/2010/07/meaningless-plaques/ this London-based prank]].

*** Well, to be fair, since the arrival of "political correctness" sometime in the 1970s, you kind of ''have'' to say something like that now before any potentially controversial statement, if only to forestall outraged criticism.

* "Nobody has the intention of building a wall" - [[EastGermany Walter Ulbricht]]

* "No one has the intention of erecting a wall!" ("Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!") was uttered by General Secretary Walter Ulbricht of the Communist Party of the [[EastGermany GDR]] on June 15 1961 in an international press conference. The subject of the conference was the Berlin sector border, but no one had mentioned anything about putting up a wall on that border before. Two months later ... [[BerlinWall So Yeah]].

** And also in Heart Gold/Soul Silver (don't remember if there was such a line in the GSC originals), upon reaching Azalea Town, a Team Rocket grunt is seen in an argument with some dude, then bumping him and having him run away, and then closing the path to the Slowpoke Well. And when the player talks to him, he states that "Nothing is going on". SoYeah.

* A recent ad for AT&T wireless has several people draping orange curtains over famous monuments and buildings. At the end of the there is a large disclaimer that says the artist Kristo (who does shit like this) and his affiliates had nothing to do with the ad. Hmmmm...

!!Examples

* The contraceptive pill used to be illegal for contraceptive use. It was, however, allowed to regulate heavy periods and other things (such as correcting endometriosis). Some doctors and some women would invoke this trope to prescribe/get a prescription.

-->'''Gus:''' Why didn't he didn't say anything about knifing people?

* A running gag in ''Fist of Fun'' - Richard Herring would say something; Stewart Lee would point out it was nonsense, ending with a rhetorical ''reducto ad absurdum'' such as "Or do you ''want'' to swim in raw sewage?" Richard would then reply "Honestly, if I ''wanted'' to swim in sewage then I'd..." and proceed to outline a highly detailed plan for breaking into his local sewage plant during the guard's teabreak.

'''See also:''' CouldSayItBut. Often used to establish that you're MostDefinitelyNotAVillain. When TheMafia uses it, it's the LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub. OrSoIHeard may follow. HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday and [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny People's Republic of Tyranny]] are sub-tropes. Compare NightmareFuelStationAttendant, SayingTooMuch and INeverSaidItWasPoison. Contrast FalseReassurance, BlatantLies and ImplausibleDeniability.

* Ruby, in ''RaveMaster'' manages to nearly get Haru killed by insistantly telling his captors that there isn't one more member of their group who has yet to arrive and, when this is [[BlatantLies lie]] is seen through, adds that the person who isn't coming deffinitly isn't the rave master.

-->'''Grandpa: ''' My Homer is not a communist. He may be a liar, a pig, an idiot, a communist, but he is not a porn star! '''