Daily Dialogue — June 8, 2013

Rufus T. Firefly: Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you: he really is an idiot. I implore you, send him back to his father and brothers, who are waiting for him with open arms in the penitentiary. I suggest that we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.
Chicolini: I’ll tell you what I’ll do: I’ll take five and ten in Woolworth.
Rufus T. Firefly: I wanted to get rid of habeas corpus, but I should have gotten rid of you instead.
Counsel: I object.
Chicolini: I object.
Rufus T. Firefly: Even I object, too.

— Duck Soup (1933), story by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is witty banter, suggested by stoneinthesling.

Trivia: Early drafts of the script included scenes in an opera house and aboard a zeppelin.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Marx Brothers. Enough said. [Witty banter-wise.]

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