The Modal Verb "Can"

Intro

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• ridiculous
• anticipate
• play it safe
• lose it

• lightning doesn't strike twice
• go awry
• groom
• evidence

• brunch
• bachelor party

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They say lightning doesn’t strike twice. But that doesn’t mean the same group of guys can’t have a crazy bachelor party that results in at least one kidnapping, one bizarre incident involving an animal, and a ton of other things going awry. According to Hollywood, that is.

In the first Hangover, a group of friends shared a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas and woke up the next morning to find they’d lost the groom. In the new movie, it’s another member of the group’s turn to get married, and he wisely decides on a quiet pre-wedding brunch instead of the traditional guy’s night out.

But a quiet pre-wedding brunch wouldn’t make a very interesting movie, would it? Luckily for fans of the first Hangover, it isn’t long before things start going terribly wrong for the guys…again. Hear why Mason and Jason can’t wait to party with The Hangover Part 2.

Dialog

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Jason

Mason

Jason:  Mason, will you be part of my wolf pack?

Mason:  I will. Are you asking me to go see The Hangover 2 with you?

Jason:  Yes.

Mason:  Absolutely. I gotta say, and this will probably sounds silly, but the premise just seems a little ridiculous for me.

Jason:  For the second one?

Mason:  For the second one, whereas the first one was a pretty ridiculous premise, but the fact they say it’ll happen another time. You know what I mean?

Jason:  Right, right. You’d think they’d learn the lesson the first time, the Hangover guys.

Mason:  Right. But nevertheless, I certainly don’t know what will happen, like how they’ll make that shift from a nice well-planned event to everything going awry.

Jason:  I mean, it can happen. Like have you ever just been on vacation and you anticipate it’s gonna be completely normal, and just, things go crazy?

Mason:  I generally play it pretty safe, so I don’t know, have you ever had things just go off and turn for the worst?

Jason:  Yeah, I mean things can go awry if you get the right person out of their home environment. Like some people just kind of lose it when they get out of town or out of the country. And you can sometimes not tell who those people are going to be until you have them with you.

Mason:  Hmm.

Jason:  Best to play it safe, go with people you’ve seen photos of them on vacation, evidence it seemed to go well. Those are the friends to travel with.

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