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And this place looking like a flicker's nest.

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Yes, we're in for our semi-annual wigging,

I suppose.

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- You'd better put your coat on, Potts.

- Why? What...

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- Better fix your tie.

- Fix your hair, fix your hair.

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Say, what is all this nonsense?

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GURKAKOFF:
This nonsense is Miss Totten.

JEROME:
And will you please smile at her?

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Say, this is all very undignified.

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- Lf you think you're being funny, I...

- Shh!

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- Morning, gentlemen.

- ALL:
Good morning.

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Won't you sit here, Miss Totten?

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It's a very nice morning, Miss Totten.

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Would you like to speak, Miss Totten,

or shall I?

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You, please, Mr. Larsen.

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I'll make this as brief as possible,

gentlemen.

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To date, $283,000 have been expended

in writing this encyclopedia.

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You all realize that Miss Totten's father,

the late Daniel S. Totten,

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left only a quarter of a million dollars

for this project.

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Every additional penny will have to come

from Miss Totten's own pocket.

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We would like a frank estimate

of how much longer you will take.

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- Maybe three years, maybe four.

- It cannot be. It just cannot be.

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Oh, my dear Miss Totten,

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you wouldn't discontinue

your father's great gesture

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towards human enlightenment?

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"Human enlightenment."

What nonsense, Professor Jerome.

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Papa had just one reason for ever starting

this unfortunate enterprise.

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Vanity.

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He broke a blood vessel

because he found his name was omitted

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from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Because 30 pages were devoted

to Thomas Alva Edison,

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17 to Alexander Graham Bell,

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but not one line to Daniel S. Totten,

the inventor of the electric toaster.

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In our encyclopedia,

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