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"Okay, fellas" she yells, leaning against her shovel and wiping the sweat from her brow, "I just finished the new hole. You can move that s**thouse over here now!"
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reflection on aging: May I be as gallant as when she was a gal, and as bouyant as when I was a boy.
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Thet Mae West gag I like best is the one about her interviewing a series of male actors to choose one for an upcoming movie. She kissed the first one and he fainted. Same with the second and third. Mae West said sarcastically, they're sissies. I can't use any one of them.The fourth one made audible sounds of impending collapse, but rallied and managed to come back strongly. Mae West said "OK, I'll take him."
After she left, the fourth actor's agent said to him:"Gee, did she take much out of you?" His client relied in a very mushy voice :" Jushht my bwidgework."
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I allus liked the one where she was reputed to have said to some fellow "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?"
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Geometrical fact: a line is the shortest path from a point to another.
More or less - of course I cannot to quote it precisely - she said
A curve is the more nice path from a point to another.
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CapK, that's not "reputed". If recall serves, it's an line in the movie My Little Chickadee, Mae speaking to W.C. Fields. But with somewhat more punch: "grr, is that a pistol yer packin', or are ya happy ta *see me?
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according to at least one Mae West FAQ sheet, she never said it in a film until after she became famous for saying it!
the line often attributed to her, "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" was actually never said in a Mae West movie until her last, "Sextette." And that was actually a self-reference, having had the line credited to her so long ago. It is rumored that she first muttered a version of the line to an interviewer.
other quotes from My Little Chickadee
Judge: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?
Flower Belle: No, your honor, I'm doin' my best to hide it!
Mrs. Gideon: Ohhh! I hope that wasn't whiskey you were drinking.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Ah, no, dear, just a little sheep dip. Panacea for all stomach ailments.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Come, my fox, my flower! I have some very definite pear-shaped ideas that I'd like to discuss with thee.
Cuthbert J. Twillie: During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Compelled to live on food and water -
Cousin Zeb: Uh, is this a game of chance?
Cuthbert J. Twillie: Not the way I play it, no.
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Preliminary note: W.C. Fields was heavily involved in the screenwriting of many of his movies, and was given to wordplay.
Upon inquiry regarding My Little Chickadee, I went to one of those old-style paper-and-binding dictionaries, and learned that a chickadee is a small bird of the group known as the "titmouse".
Well done, WC! But I should add per the same source that "titmouse" traces back to the old english "tit", meaning (throat-clearing -e) "any small thing or animal".
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