Tuesday, February 3, 2009

grain alcohol and rainwater

Ripper
Mandrake, in the name of Her Majesty and the Continental Congress come here and feed me this belt, boy!
Mandrake
Jack, I'd love to come. But, what's happened, you see, is the string in my leg's gone.
Ripper
The what?
Mandrake
The string. I never told you, but, you see, I've got a gammy leg. Oh dear. Gone. Shot off.
Stanley Kubrick's 1964 Dr. Strangelove screenplay here.

An earlier reference to Peter Sellers here.