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<font size=3>At 2/7/2010 10:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">When I was ten or eleven I saw
an old movie on TV that contained the<br>
following bit of dialogue. It always stuck in my mind, which shows that
by<br>
that age your kid's fate is sealed.<br>
I'm posting it because I just saw the movie again for the first time
since<br>
and it confirmed my recollection. Till now I had no idea what movie it
was<br>
because this was the only part I remembered:</font></blockquote><br>
Of course, you don't tell us what movie it is. "Foreign
Correspondent" (1940), one of Hitchcock's classics. (ffolliott
is a bit two much, doubling all of the consonants in his surname.
But what do you expect of a character played by George Sanders.)<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Johnny Jones: This
is Scott ffolliott, newspaperman same as you....Mr.<br>
Haverstock, Mr. ffolliott.<br>
Scott ffolliott: With a double 'F'.<br>
Johnny Jones: How do you do?<br>
Scott ffolliott: How do you do?<br>
Johnny Jones: I don't get the double 'F'.<br>
Scott ffolliott: They're at the beginning. Both small 'F's<br>
Johnny Jones: They can't be at the beginning.<br>
Scott ffolliott: One of my ancestors was beheaded by Henry VIII. His
wife<br>
dropped the capital letter to commemorate it. There it is.<br>
Johnny Jones: How do you say it, like a stutter?<br>
Scott ffolliott: Just a straight 'fuh'.<br><br>
There was, of course, the noted English historian "Charles
ffoulkes" [sic].<br>
His surname derives from the same source as that of Guy Fawkes, so
perhaps<br>
Mr. ffolliott's practice reflects that of Mr. ffoulkes's
ffamily.</font></blockquote></body>
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