(seeing a photograph of a barren surface) "What's that?"
"It's the moon."
"I never knew it could look so unfriendly."
"It's an unfriendly universe."
--Breaking the Sound Barrier
"Look, the situation is, Susan--I don't have to but I must!"--ibid.
"I'm looking for a job as a gynecologist--no openings for me!"--George Carlin
The old poster Duck Lady turned up at mrcranky.com . I've missed her.
Dinner was lamb stew.
Saw David Lean's Breaking the Sound Barrier at the Cinematheque. Written by Terence Rattigan, it's a pretty good exercise in middlebrow "stiff upper lip" Britishness. The dialogue has lots of Anglicisms like "There's a good chap" and "this awful business."
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