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From: jackh@zehntel.UUCP (jack hagerty)
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Subject: Re: Wizard of Oz
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Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 13:39:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 13:39:04 1984
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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.
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