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“Alright, what does a war hero have to do to get some lubrication around here?”

Marshal Zhukov, The Death of Stalin

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RDS

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Jack Carter in ‘Get Carter’*
‘You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job. Now behave yourself.’

*possibly the greatest British gangster film of all time (and I’m talking about the original 1971 film with Michael Caine, not the ****** awful Sylvester Stallone 2000 remake)
 
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“I’d just like to have a drink tonight with someone that knows how to act. And maybe has something to say I don’t already know. And I’d rather he’s tall. That’s what I want.” — Marigold, Horizon, An American Saga.
 
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“Give me a Lucky Lotto Triple Seven and a cigar, would you?” — Moondog

”Sure.” — Store cashier

“You don't sell acid, do you?” — Moondog

”No...” — Store cashier

“That's too bad, man. This place used to.” — Moondog, The Beach Bum
 

EngProf

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"Charlie don’t surf.” — Lt. Col. Kilgore (Robert Duvall), Apocalypse Now
I always liked that line, and many others did, too.
This happened in the real-world about that:
Some enterprising souls had some T-shirts printed with a close-up of Charles Manson's face with the text below:
"Charlie don't surf."
They were selling those for a while, but got into some sort of copyright-issue problem, and had to stop.
I always admired their imagination and cleverness.
 
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I always liked that line, and many others did, too.
This happened in the real-world about that:
Some enterprising souls had some T-shirts printed with a close-up of Charles Manson's face with the text below:
"Charlie don't surf."
They were selling those for a while, but got into some sort of copyright-issue problem, and had to stop.
I always admired their imagination and cleverness.
Having lived in the time where I had to register for the draft as an 18 yr old then a couple yrs later sweat thru the drawing of lottery numbers on national TV during the Vietnam War, it takes on a totally different meaning to me. It never occurred to me until last yr when a granddaughter asked to interview me about the draft for a school project just how many younger people alive now have no idea what that worry was like. Once or twice a yr when melancholy takes over I have to watch Apocalypse Now or Apocalypse Now Redux.
 
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(referring to Ellison’s ***) “You use that much? This here?”— Caleb Sykes

“Not the way you mean it.” — Hayes Ellison

“How else do you use it? Hell, maybe you drive nails with it.” — Caleb Sykes

“I just mean it's fairly new. Haven't had much need of it yet.” — Hayes Ellison

“Not yet? It looks like we got ourselves a bad man, right here.” — Caleb Sykes, Horizon, An American Saga
 
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^^^Followed up with:

“My father says, if they see you suffer an insult, men will come try you. You better make it known you let no injury pass, however small, and your judgement is sure, and terrible. Falter, he says, and they will take from you, and they will keep on taking until you are wiped clean from this land, and your name with it. I'm just saying that's something you might want to keep in mind.” — Caleb Sykes, Horizon, An American Saga
 

AbbaDatDeHat

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Having lived in the time where I had to register for the draft as an 18 yr old then a couple yrs later sweat thru the drawing of lottery numbers on national TV during the Vietnam War, it takes on a totally different meaning to me. It never occurred to me until last yr when a granddaughter asked to interview me about the draft for a school project just how many younger people alive now have no idea what that worry was like. Once or twice a yr when melancholy takes over I have to watch Apocalypse Now or Apocalypse Now Redux.
This touched a nerve in me from way back.
I recall those evenings too, Jack.
Dread was the word. Dread and hopelessness.
High school kids who didn’t know the difference from their *** and a hole in the ground awaiting their fate. If your parents couldn’t afford to send you to college Uncle Sam would gladly give you a full ride to the University of Viet Nam.
If you graduated the U of VN they’d send you right back home like you weren’t even gone!
If your number got picked you dreaded the mailman every day after.
You can’t traumatize a generation of youth much more than that.
Yeah, those nights were one hell of a bingo game.
When paired with the nightly news today in Viet Nam body count score, dread was an understatement.
Although we were toughened up with all the World nuclear obliteration by the Red Menace drills in school and TV commercials.
Yeah, today it’s always someone else somewhere else.
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