not helping

"We have never had any difficulty with you, and you have never been one of the unreasonable ones. You don't expect to be set up in a coach and six, and to be fed on turtle soup and venison, with a gold spoon, as a good many of 'em do!' Mr. Bounderby always represented this to be the sole, immediate, and direct object…

you forget One Hour Photo

That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

I have to agree. Maybe that's what happens when you piece together the meaning of a Wim Wenders film looking down the wrong end of a telescope via E.T., True West, Rain Man, and Quantum Leap.

my favorite is "the Department of Justice"

yes, and for this I forgive you for calling toasted ravioli "fried" upthread

pfft.  As if Mankind only just rubbed the sleep out of its eyes when YOU got here.

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it – whole-heartedly – and delete it before sending your manuscripts to press. Murder your darlings.”