Daily Dialogue — March 28, 2012

“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests — we did. [winks at Dean Wormer] But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg — isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America. Gentlemen!”

— Otter (Tim Matheson), Animal House (1978), written by Harold Ramis & Douglas Kenney & Chris Miller

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The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is snark, suggested by Gabe. Today’s suggestion is by churnage@yahoo.com.

Trivia: The original script called for a scene of competitive projectile vomiting (“booting”) in the Delta House basement. Flounder was going to fail at this repeatedly. Later, after throwing up on Dean Wormer when he’s told he’s flunked out, Boon congratulates Flounder on his technique.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Sarcasm as snark. Man, I love this movie!