Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site zehntel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!jackh From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Wizard of Oz Message-ID: <1538@zehntel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 13:39:04 EDT Article-I.D.: zehntel.1538 Posted: Fri Jun 15 13:39:04 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 04:08:15 EDT References: <189@ihima.UUCP>, <1536@zehntel.UUCP> Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 35 I posted my reply to the "Scarecrow Diploma" question off the top of my head and while on the way home last night it struck me (it didn't hurt much) that the reply was not only incomplete but contained an error. The error is that the Wizard did not say "a lot of people without brains do an awful lot of thinking, don't they?" That's a misquote from earlier in the film when Dorthy asks the Scarecrow how he could talk without a brain and he answers: "I don't know, but a lot of people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?" The full text of the Wizard's speech (still done from memory so there may be a few glitches) is: "You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. Every puceanaomous (sp?) creature who crawls on the earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from we have Universities, seats of great learning where men go to become great thinkers; and when they come out they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have! But, they have one thing you don't have, a diploma. So, by the power vested in me by the Universitatus Committeeatum (sp?) E. Pluribus Unum, I confer upon you the honorary degree of ThD!" The Scarecrow then shows that his brain is defective by putting his finger to his head and mutilating the Pythagorian Theorem: "The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an Isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side! Oh joy! Rapture! I have a brain!" Yeah, it's probably the same one Marty Feldman gave to Gene Wilder in "Young Frankenstein". Used to belong to Abby somebody. -- Jack Hagerty Zehntel, Inc. !ihnp4!zehntel!jackh