Daily Dialogue — July 27, 2013

“Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I’d like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol?”

— Christmas Vacation (1989), written by John Hughes

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is tantrums, suggested by Aarthi Ramanathan.

Trivia: Clark (Chevy Chase) uses thirty words to describe his boss (Brian Doyle-Murray).

Dialogue On Dialogue: When a tantrum involves a long string of invectives like this, it falls into the special category called tirade. From a comedic point of view, the longer the tirade, the better.