A scene from Animal Crackers 1930
Jamison

[reading back the letter]

"In care of Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, and McCormack..."

Spaulding

You've left out a Hungadunga! You've left out the main one, too. Thought you could slip one over on me, didn't you, eh? All right, leave it out and put in a windshield wiper instead. I tell you what you do, Jamison. I tell you what. Make it, uh, make it three windshield wipers and one Hungadunga. They won't all be there when the letter arrives, anyhow.

Jamison

"Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga...and McCormack."

Spaulding

"...and McCormack."

Jamison

"Gentlemen, question mark."

Spaulding

"Gentlemen, Question Mark!!" Put it on the penultimate, not on the dipthonic. You want to brush up on your Greek, Jamison. Well, get a Greek and brush up on him!

Jamison

"In re yours of the fifteenth."

Spaulding

I see.

Jamison

Now, uh, you said a lot of things here that I didn't think were important, so I just omitted them.

Mrs. Rittenhouse

Well!... [Spaulding swings at his head and misses] Whoa, Captain! Good gracious! Oh, my!

Spaulding

So...you just omitted them, eh? ...You just omitted the body of the letter, that's all. You've just left out the body of the letter, that's all! Yours not to reason why, Jamison! You've left out the body of the letter!...All right, send it that way and tell them the body'll follow.

Jamison

Do you want the body in brackets?

Spaulding

No, it will never get there in brackets. Put it in a box. Put it in a box and mark it 'fragilly'.

Jamison

Mark it what?

Spaulding

Mark it 'fragilly.' F - R - A - G...Look it up, Jamison. It's in the dictionary. Look under 'fragile'. Look under the table if you don't find it there.

Jamison

"Quotes, unquotes, and quotes."

Spaulding

That's three quotes?

Jamison

Yes, sir.

Spaulding

Add another quote and make it a gallon. How much is it a gallon, Jamison?

Jamison

Regards.

Spaulding

Regards. That's a fine letter, Jamison, that's an epic. That's dandy. Now, I want you to make two carbon copies of that letter and throw the original away. And when you get through with that, throw the carbon copies away. Just send a stamp, airmail, that's all. You may go, Jamison. I may go too.

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