better with each passing day (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Alison Murie]

Exactly!
AM
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On Sep 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

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> I thought his last words, when Jack Lemmon finally says, "I'm a MAN",
> are, "Well -- nobody's perfect."
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> DanG
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> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Alison Murie <sagehen7470 at att.net>
> wrote:
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>>> In either case, the quotes don't really have to mean anything.  They
>>> can
>>> be in context -- when an attractive woman enters, we'd note that she
>>> is
>>> "lean and mean and not too far in between" or is "a monkey woman".
>>> But
>>> they can be completely out of left field, as well.  I used to
>>> share an
>>> office with a Caddyshack fan who would say "I've got that going for
>>> me,
>>> which is nice" at times at which it would make no sense at all;
>>> likewise
>>> "It's in the hole!" and "Winter rules".  Another buddy would say
>>> "I've
>>> got a pond -- that would be good for you" apropos of nothing at all.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> ~~~~~~~~
>> Joe E Brown's last words in Some Like It Hot.
>> AM
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