Ball of Fire (1941)
Allen Jenkins: Garbage Man
Quotes
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Garbage Man : I could use a bundle of scratch right now on account of I met me a mouse last week.
Prof. Oddly : Mouse?
Garbage Man : What a pair of gams. A little in, a little out, and a little more out.
Professor Bertram Potts : I am still completely mystified.
Garbage Man : Well, with this dish on me hands and them giving away 25 smackaroos on that quizzola.
Professor Bertram Potts : Smackaroos?
Prof. Oddly : Smackaroos? What are smackaroos?
Garbage Man : A smackaroo is a...
Professor Bertram Potts : No such word exists.
Garbage Man : Oh, it don't, huh? A smackaroo is a dollar, pal.
Professor Bertram Potts : Well, the accepted vulgarism for a dollar is a buck.
Garbage Man : The accepted vulgarism for a smackaroo is a dollar. That goes for a banger, a fish, a buck, or a rug.
Professor Bertram Potts : Well, what about the mouse?
Garbage Man : The mouse is the dish. That's what I need the moolah for.
Prof. Oddly : Moolah?
Garbage Man : Yeah, the dough. We'll be stepping. Me and the smooch - I mean, the dish, I mean, the mouse. You know, hit the jiggles for a little drum boogie.
Professor Bertram Potts : Please, please, not so fast.
Garbage Man : Brother, we're going to have some hoytoytoy.
Prof. Oddly , Prof. Robinson , Prof. Jerome , Prof. Gurkakoff , Prof. Magenbruch , Prof. Quintana : Hoytoytoy?
Garbage Man : Yeah, and if you want that one explained, you go ask your papas.
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Prof. Peagram : Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy Xlll, born 69 BC, killed herself on the 29th day of August, 30 BC, by placing an asp to her bosom.
Garbage Man : A what?
Prof. Peagram : An asp. A small snake.
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Professor Bertram Potts : There's another word I'd like to take up now. It's recurred several times in our discussions and its meaning still eludes me. I think it was Miss O'Shea who used it yesterday in reference to the cuffs that I wear. The word is "corny."
Sugarpuss O'Shea : Yeah, wouldn't you say they were corny?
Professor Bertram Potts : Because of the cornstarch in them?
Sugarpuss O'Shea : Because it's 1941.
Professor Bertram Potts : Then corny means old fashioned.
Sugarpuss O'Shea : Kind of hick, loose-tooth.
Garbage Man : Mortimer Snerd. Oh, geez.
College Boy : There's other kinds of corn, too. When you give your girl your fraternity pin, well, if she says, "I'll keep it forever," - that's corny too.
Newsboy : Yeah or take a joke. "That's no lady, that's my wife."
Garbage Man : Making your baby's shoes into ashtrays. That's corn.
Sugarpuss O'Shea : Right off the cob.
Professor Bertram Potts : Well, let's stick with corn. Is it synonymous with baloney?
Newsboy : No, it's anything that gets them in the sticks.
Garbage Man : "Long time, no see, " that's Indian corn.
Sugarpuss O'Shea : Yeah, when a guy comes to see a girl and says, "Let's turn off the lights, it hurts my eyes." Brother, that's corn.
Professor Bertram Potts : The implication is he's trying to pull some hoytoytoy?
Sugarpuss O'Shea : You're catching on, Professor.
Professor Bertram Potts : Countrified, old-fashioned, sentimental.