Daily Dialogue — February 19, 2014

First Man: Hello, can we have your liver…?
Mr Brown: My what?
First Man: Your liver… it’s a large glandular organ in your abdomen… you know it’s a reddish-brown and it’s sort of a –
Mr Brown: Yes, I know what it is, but I’m using it.
Second Man: Come on sir… don’t muck us about.

They move in.

Mr Brown: Hey!

They shut the door behind him.

The first man makes a grab at his wallet and finds a card in it.

First Man: Hello! What’s this then…?
Mr Brown: A liver donor’s card.
First Man: Need we say more?
Second Man: No!
Mr Brown: Look, I can’t give it to you now. It says ‘In The Event of Death’…
First Man: No-one who has ever had their liver taken out by us has survived.

— The Meaning of Life (1983), written by Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Palin

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is surgery. Today’s suggestion by Daniel Cossu.

Trivia: The names of companies owned by the Very Big Corporation of America (listed on the wall in the board room and being added to by the sign painter) are a repeating list, some of which are puns or in-jokes having to do with events in the rest of the movie. They are:

Acme Construction Company
 Payne, Bickers and Dogood Ltd.
 Stn. Pendons Ltd.
 V. Rich and Son
 Doneys (Florence)
 Mirage Land Co.
 Arctic Geo. Lab. Co.
 Liver Donors Inc.
 World Wide Wine Corp.
 Universal Amalgamations Ltd.
 Consolidated Steel Co.
 Micro Computer Inc.
 Moonscape Products Ltd.
 Rubber Goods Incorporated
 D.Odgey Enterprises Ltd.
 Money Factor Printers Ltd.
 Better Plastics Corps.
 D. Crepid Holdings
 Super Big Ltd.
 Space Propulsion Lab
 Interstellar Travel Corp.
 Dawking’s Mining Co.
 Lange and Sons (International)
 Cooper’s (Purveyors)
 Dickinson Kincain Association
 The All Enveloping Co. Ltd.
 O. Verpaid Associates Ltd.
 E. Normons and Sons
 A. Maze and Lee
 Huge Horace Mann and Yure Ltd.
 R. Devious Inc.
 Wakefeld and Daughter
 Vast Holdings (Europe) Ltd.
 Phil Thevich Consortium
 Fastness and Vast Co. Ltd
 Star Bright Merchandise Org.
 X. Tortion World Wide Ltd.
 Cartwright Tutorials
 Black and White Picture Co. Ltd.
 R. J. McArthur Parks Ltd.
 Walker, Walker and Jones Bros.
 Data Travel and Experiments

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Daniel: “Drama, conflict, urgency, humor, plot twists… Monty Python at their very best.”

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