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of how much longer you will take.

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- Maybe three years, maybe four.

- It cannot be. It just cannot be.

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Oh, my dear Miss Totten,

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you wouldn't discontinue

your father's great gesture

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towards human enlightenment?

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"Human enlightenment."

What nonsense, Professor Jerome.

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Papa had just one reason for ever starting

this unfortunate enterprise.

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Vanity.

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He broke a blood vessel

because he found his name was omitted

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from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Because 30 pages were devoted

to Thomas Alva Edison,

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17 to Alexander Graham Bell,

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but not one line to Daniel S. Totten,

the inventor of the electric toaster.

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In our encyclopedia,

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Mr. Totten shall receive

an appropriate amount of space.

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- Oh, yes, yes.

- Yes, of course.

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- Three quarters of a page, I should think.

- Three quarters of a page?

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- That's all he deserves.

- Is it?

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You may go on, Mr. Larsen.

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All we ask is

that you bring this thing to a close

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somehow or the other.

Get on with it. Slap it together.

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Mr. Larsen, may I have a word?

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- Hello, Professor Potts.

- Hello, Miss Totten.

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Mr. Larsen, you said, "Slap it together."

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We're not the slapping together kind.

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We have started an encyclopedia,

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and we shall finish it

as thoroughly as is humanly possible.

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- Another $100,000?

- Lf necessary, yes.

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If our work goes slowly

it's because the world, it goes so fast.

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Take Professor Jerome, our geographer.

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He has to rewrite all the time.

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- And Dr. Magenbruch...

- LARSEN:
I'm not interested.

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Don't interrupt, Mr. Larsen.

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Go on, Professor.

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I'm sure it's your wish that this monument

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to your father be finished

as nobly as it was begun.

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I'm appealing to you, Miss Totten,

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to your vision and to your heart.

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Maybe I'm a little inarticulate,

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but I've always regarded you as a...

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Yes, Professor?

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Always regarded you as a...

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(EX CLAIMING)

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Oh, Professor.

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- You know what I mean, Miss Totten.

- Yes.

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I warn you, Miss Totten,

another four years of this, with...

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After all, it was Father's wish.

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But, gentlemen, you will hurry

and finish the encyclopedia, won't you?

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- We will.

- Yes, yes, indeed.

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Last year, when all the other professors

came to my musical,

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where were you, Professor Potts?

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Sinus. But I shall be there this year.

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I shall look forward to seeing you again.

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- Goodbye.

- Goodbye.

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- Goodbye, madam.

- Good day.

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- Good day.

- Good day.

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(MUTTERING EX CITEDLY)

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That maneuver down my spine

was very unnecessary.

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- Was it, my dear Potts?

- Didn't it work?

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MAN:
Hi.

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I hope you don't mind.

I came through the kitchen.

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- POTTS:
Who are you?

- I'm the garbage man.

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I want to find out something

about Cleopatra.

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- Cleopatra?

- Yeah.

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This is some kind of a library or school,

isn't it?

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Neither, we are writing an encyclopedia.

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- Icyclo-what?

- An encyclopedia.

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A work which endeavors to compile

and catalog all human knowledge.

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Say, that's just what I need.

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Young man,

did you come through my kitchen?

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- That's right, sister.

- I'm not your sister, and you get out.

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- Oh, now...

- Miss Bragg.

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Please, Miss Bragg,

we find this intensely interesting.

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Go on, please.

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You can't tell me

he's not infested with germs.

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Then go and get your gas mask.

Now, shoo, scat, skedaddle.

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- Please, won't you take a seat?

- Thanks, bo.

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I seen all these books

through the window,

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and I figured

that maybe you can help me out.

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- In what way, young man?

- With this quizzola they got on the radio.

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- This what?

- Quizzola?

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Korn Krunchies Quiz-Quiz.

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Send in 100 box covers,

and you stand to make a little dough.

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Well, with my opportunities,

I got about 3,000 box covers together.

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Only some of the answers

you have to send in to the questions.

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You know, like true or false.

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(STUTTERING)

You have those questions here?

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Yeah, sure.

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Well, that's very interesting.

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"Question one. Cleopatra died...

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