A scene from My Cousin Vinny 1992
Vinny

Is that a drip I hear?

Mona Lisa

Yeah.

Vinny

Weren't you the last one to use the bathroom?

Mona Lisa

So?

Vinny

Well, did you use the faucet?

Mona Lisa

Yeah!

Vinny

Why didn't you turn it off?

Mona Lisa

I did turn it off.

Vinny

Well, if you turned it off, why am I listening to it?

Mona Lisa

Did it ever occur to you that it could be turned off and drip at the same time?

Vinny

No, because if you turned it off, it wouldn't drip.

Mona Lisa

Maybe it's broken!

Vinny

Is that what you're saying? It's broken?

Mona Lisa

Yeah, that's it, it's broken.

Vinny

You sure?

Mona Lisa

I'm positive.

Vinny

Maybe you didn't twist it hard enough.

Mona Lisa

I twisted it just right.

Vinny

How can you be so sure?

Mona Lisa

If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model faucet requires a range of 10-16 foot pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.

Vinny

How can you be sure you used 16 foot pounds of torque?

Mona Lisa

Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory edition, signature series torque wrench. The kind used by Cal Tech High Energy physicists, and NASA engineers.

Vinny

In that case, how can you be sure THAT'S accurate?

Mona Lisa

Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state and federal Departments of Weights and Measures, to be dead-on balls accurate. Here's the certificate of validation!

Vinny

"Dead-on balls accurate"?

Mona Lisa

It's an industry term.

Vinny

I guess the ****in' thing is broken!

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