Ball of Fire Page #10

One, two.

810

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Professor Oddly, please stand up.

811

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I beg your pardon.

812

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43:21,532 -- 00:43:25,093

- One, two, three. Humph, humph.

- Just one.

813

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- The expert is here. We need you.

- What's the trouble?

814

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43:29,006 -- 00:43:30,837

Well, that dance you showed us last night.

815

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- Yeah?

- Yes, maybe we're not very bright.

816

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Professor Gurkakoff has been trying

to reconstruct it by compound fractions.

817

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- You'd better relax, lover.

- Who, me? Thank you.

818

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I can't find the common denominator

between the steps and the music.

819

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You bet you can't, you're playing

a polka, and I taught you a conga.

820

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How about some light in here? Come on.

821

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Look, kids, this is the tempo.

822

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(SUGARPUSS HUMMING

CONGA TEMPO)

823

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(EVERYONE HUMMING TEMPO)

824

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Got it?

825

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- That's right, hit it.

- Hit what?

826

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That's what I told you.

827

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- One, two, three...

- Attaboy, Gurky! You're wonderful!

828

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Wing it, Professor. Hang on.

829

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Good afternoon.

830

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How do you like the new suit?

831

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44:19,256 -- 00:44:21,383

What the well-dressed professor will wear.

832

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44:21,458 -- 00:44:23,892

A young lady chased me all the way up

Fifth Avenue.

833

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Probably to tell you

to take the price tag off.

834

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Did you... Did you get the records?

835

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Well, they were all out of

Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar.

836

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- Oh, dear, oh, dear.

- But I got Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

837

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- and Shoot the Sherbet to Me Herbert.

- Now watch us go.

838

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Thank you very much, gentlemen.

839

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The same time tomorrow,

all of you who can.

840

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- Okay, coach, so long.

- Goodbye.

841

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This has given me

a new interest in life, Doc.

842

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Me, too.

843

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I'm gonna use some of those

two-dollar words hollering my papers.

844

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Park Avenue bigamy scandal,

most illuminating, most illuminating!

845

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- So long, Prof.

- And thank you very much.

846

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That's all right.

847

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Excuse me for talking shop,

848

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but your garbage certainly

has cheered up these days.

849

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Flowers, candy boxes, perfume wrappings

and an empty of that sweet French liqueur.

850

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(STUTTERING) Why, that's not our garbage,

I'm sure.

851

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Maybe it wasn't, but it was in your pail.

852

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(DOOR OPENING)

853

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I'm leaving, sister.

854

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(CONGA MUSIC PLAYING)

855

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Miss Bragg.

856

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May I have a word with you,

Professor Potts?

857

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That music, is it coming from next door?

858

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From this door, and that's what

I want to talk to you about.

859

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Either she goes or I go.

860

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- You're speaking of Miss O'Shea?

- I am, Professor Potts.

861

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That is the kind of woman

that makes whole civilizations topple.

862

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It's always been my pride to scrupulously,

untiringly, efficiently...

863

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Now, now, Miss Bragg,

you've split that infinitive three times.

864

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I repeat, either she goes or I go.

865

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I don't like ultimata, Miss Bragg,

but I shall look into the matter.

866

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Don't look into the matter,

look into the library.

867

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(PROFESSOR WHOOPING)

868

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(LOUD MUSIC PLAYING)

869

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Hiya, Pottsy, come on, hook on!

870

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I feel so abandoned.

871

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Hey, what's the big idea?

872

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As soon as you gentlemen get your breath,

we had better have a conference.

873

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Will you please leave the room,

Miss O'Shea?

874

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- But we've only just started.

- Lf you please, Miss O'Shea.

875

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Loose-tooth again.

876

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Now, if you gentlemen will be kind enough

877

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to get together all that you've written

in the last three days...

878

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(TAPPING AT DOOR)

879

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Well, it's about time.

880

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I thought you two had amnesia

and forgot where you parked me.

881

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Hold the phone, Sugie.

882

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Dropping me on the doorstep

like a throwaway for a credit dentist.

883

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- You said it was for one night.

- Sugie, for snap's sake.

884

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You're as hot as a pistol.

The DA's got 100 men on the job.

885

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Why, they're squeezing this town

through a sieve, borough by borough.

886

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You tell her, Pastrami.

887

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They're tailing us, Sugie. Took us

three hours to get here from 48th Street.

888

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Detoured through Jamaica, Long Island

to shake them off.

889

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Okay, you wait here.

890

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I'll get my things together

in two seconds flat.

891

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Hey, wait a minute, Sugie.

892

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- We got a surprise for you.

- You ain't leaving, not right yet.

893

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I'm not? Joe's out, isn't he?

894

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Yeah, but for how long? They're laying

for you so they can get him back.

895

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That's the surprise.

896

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I'm supposed to stay in this old mans'

home till the moths eat holes in me?

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