Desk Set Page #11

to go up while the merger was going.

There's going to be more work here

than ever before.

They're putting on a few more girls.

I hope they're as good as you are.

- Moral:
Never assume.

- We'll put your stuff back.

Reference.

Miss Watson speaking.

What? Uh, purely theoretical,

of course.

- What? What?

- What is the total weight of the Earth?

- Who wants to know?

- Who wants to know? Promotion.

Well, that's the sort of thing

you can spend months finding.

Might as well give her a crack at it.

- Tell him you'll call him back.

- Call you back.

Here we go.

Now, number one.

Okay.

- Now, type it out.

- Um, what is...

the total weight of the Earth?

Now, the totaling key.

Bope-bope-pe-do to you!

What's the matter?

- It's asking you a question.

- What's the question?

"With or without people?"

Good girl.

Good girl.

May I tell you that that is the nicest

compliment EMMARAC has ever received?

You may.

I better go down to Payroll

and see how they're doing.

You wouldn't have another hairpin,

would you, I could use?

- Oh! Yes, indeed. There you are.

- Thank you.

- Hi, Smithers. How are you?

- Huh? Oh! Oh!

I'm all right now,

but it's sure been a nervous morning.

- Aspirin?

- No, thanks.

Hello, Sumner.

Oh!

Smithers, come with us.

Sumner is buying!

I don't want a drink

in the middle of the day.

You can have a malted.

- Miss Watson.

- What do you want?

Could you come out and give me

a hand with EMMARAC, please?

- Sumner, does it have to be now?

- Now or never.

Uh, well... well, now look, Mike,

I won't be a minute.

Excuse us, old man.

If Emmy's going to be

this much trouble...

Actually, it's my fault. It's on account

of this question I asked her.

Now, if you should say to me,

"What question?" I would, uh, tell you.

- What question?

- We'll, uh... We'll try it again.

Should Bunny Watson...

marry Mike Cutler,

question mark.

Wait a minute. I thought you said

this machine can't evaluate.

It can't. It can't.

It can only repeat the information...

that has been fed into it

by the human element.

What does it say?

You know perfectly well

what it says.

Uh, yeah. That's the same answer

I got the last time.

Uh, shall we ask it

another question? Good.

Should Bunny Watson...

marry Richard Sumner,

question mark.

- "N-O."

- No?

See for yourself.

- No.

- What...

Huh! Well, I told you myself

that EMMARAC could make a mistake.

- But not Bunny Watson. It'd never work.

- Why?

Because you're not in love with me.

You're in love with her.

She'd always come first.

If anything went wrong with her,

you'd forget about me like that.

I couldn't care less about that...

It could blow up right now,

and it wouldn't bother me.

Is that so? Let's see.

See? It doesn't mean

a thing to me.

You're the only thing I care about.

Honestly, it'll...

it'll only take a second.

I'll wait.

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