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Professor Bertram Potts: I've just finished my article on slang. Twenty-three pages compiled from a dozen reference books. Eight hundred examples. Everything from the idiotic combination "absotively" to the pejorative use of "zigzag." I traced the evolution of "hunky dory," tracked down "skiddo" from "skedaddle." Eight hundred examples and I may as well throw it in the waste basket. Three weeks' work.
Prof. Robinson: Potts, you're hysterical.
Professor Bertram Potts: Outmoded. Based on reference books 20 years old. Take "smooch." Take "dish." Take...
Prof. Oddly: Hoytoytoy?
Professor Bertram Potts: Hoytoytoy. Not one of them included. Living in this house cut off from the world, I've lost touch. And it's inexcusable! That man talked a living language. I embalmed some dead phrases.
Prof. Gurkakoff: But where are you going?
Professor Bertram Potts: Out to collect new data, to tap the sources of slang, the major sources. The streets. The slums. The theatrical and allied professions.
Prof. Robinson: Oh, now, Potts, don't you think that...
Professor Bertram Potts: I know it's regrettable, this loss of time, gentlemen, but it must be done. Leave the key under the mat. I won't be home before 9 o'clock
Prof. Robinson: Potts, you're hysterical.
Professor Bertram Potts: Outmoded. Based on reference books 20 years old. Take "smooch." Take "dish." Take...
Prof. Oddly: Hoytoytoy?
Professor Bertram Potts: Hoytoytoy. Not one of them included. Living in this house cut off from the world, I've lost touch. And it's inexcusable! That man talked a living language. I embalmed some dead phrases.
Prof. Gurkakoff: But where are you going?
Professor Bertram Potts: Out to collect new data, to tap the sources of slang, the major sources. The streets. The slums. The theatrical and allied professions.
Prof. Robinson: Oh, now, Potts, don't you think that...
Professor Bertram Potts: I know it's regrettable, this loss of time, gentlemen, but it must be done. Leave the key under the mat. I won't be home before 9 o'clock
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I've just finished my article on slang
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Twenty three pages compiled from a dozen reference books
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Eight hundred examples Well
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Everything from the idiotic combination absotively
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to the pejorative use of zigzag
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I traced the evolution of hunky dory
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tracked down skiddo from skedaddle
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Eight hundred examples and I may as well throw it in the waste basket
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Three weeks' work Potts you're hysterical
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Outmoded Based on reference books 20 years old
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Take smooch Take dish Take
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Hoytoytoy Hoytoytoy Not one of them included
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Living in this house cut off from the world I've lost touch
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And it's inexcusable
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That man talked a living language I embalmed some dead phrases
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But where are you going Out to collect new data
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to tap the sources of slang the major sources
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The streets The slums
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The theatrical and allied professions Oh now Potts don't you think that
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I know it's regrettable this loss of time gentlemen
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but it must be done
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Leave the key under the mat I won't be home before 9 00
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Movie Summary
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
