A scene from Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
Ripper

Mandrake?

Mandrake

Yes, Jack?

Ripper

Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?

Mandrake

Well, I can't say I have.

Ripper

Vodka, that's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?

Mandrake

Well, I-I believe that's what they drink, Jack, yes.

Ripper

On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.

Mandrake

Oh, eh, yes. I, uhm, can't quite see what you're getting at, Jack.

Ripper

Water, that's what I'm getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water?

Mandrake

Uh, uh, Good Lord!

Ripper

And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.

Mandrake

Yes.

Ripper

Are you beginning to understand?

Mandrake

Yes.

Ripper

Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?

Mandrake

Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.

Ripper

Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?

Mandrake

Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.

Ripper

Well, do you know what it is?

Mandrake

No, no I don't know what it is, no.

Ripper

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

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