CHARM … USE YOUR CHARM …
Okay, so I have just been informed by Jayne, a good friend from high school and beyond, that I left her off the list of What’s Up Doc freaks a couple posts back. How could I have forgotten?? In the words of Mr. Larabie at the end of the film: “Of COURSE! No WONDER it sounds so FAMILIAR!!”
Jayne has sent in a fabulous list of quotes from the film, never before seen on this blog. It was the first email I opened this morning, and I started laughing out loud immediately.
“Put these things in a taxi.”
“Yes, Eunice.”
“I know how you feel – I hate it when my igneous rocks are even touched!”
“SURE, it’s easy for you, eveywhere you go, women, women, women, another heart broken. You call it joking, Eunice and I, we call it lust!”
“Don’t you know the meaning of propriety?”
“Propriety? Noun. Conformity to established standards of behavior or manners, suitability, rightness or justice. See etiquette.”
“There is no Hans, Mrs. Van Hoskins, there is only me, Fritz.”
“Oh, what a shame!”
“…May I suggest that you shut yourself in the bathroom for a few moments while I search your room.”
“Well, well, what if it’s in there?”
“It won’t be, Miss Burns. Snakes, as you know, live in mortal fear of…um…tile.”
“You’re upside down.”
“What tie is that, Eunice?”
“The tie in your hand.”
“You are not going to say ‘Hi, My name’s Howard’ – anyone can say that! Anyone!”
“Anyone named Howard.”
“Oh, I’m not looking for romance. I’m looking for something stronger. As the years go by romance fades and something else takes its place. Do you know what that is?”
“Senility?”
“Trust.”
“That’s what I meant.”
“These are my pre-paleozoic tambula rocks.”
“Yes…of course they are.”
“I am not a Eunice Burns, I am THE Eunice Burns.”
“My natural curiosity was aroused! And so I did a little research on Mr. Bunkister and Miss Burns. I don’t know who he is, but she is definitely not herself.”
