Comments by dbekeny

  • I have seen unabridged dictionaries of various sizes. Makes it more wonderful to wander.

    May 13, 2011

  • ZEKE

    Say! Get in there before I make a dime bank

    out of you! Listen, kid, are you going to

    let that old Gulch heifer try and buffalo

    you?

    July 9, 2010

  • LION

    (sings)

    ...I'd click my heel

    All the trees would kneel

    And the mountains bow

    And the bulls kowtow

    July 9, 2010

  • LION

    (sings)

    Would be satin, and not cotton, and not

    chintz.

    I'd command each thing, be it fish or fowl

    July 9, 2010

  • AUNT EM

    Well, don't start posing for it now. Here,

    here -- can't work on an empty stomach.

    Have some crullers.

    July 9, 2010

  • OZ'S VOICE

    The beneficent Oz has every intention of

    granting....

    July 8, 2010

  • What's wrong with "earlier"?

    June 14, 2010

  • Remember when we just said, YES? Absolutely.

    June 14, 2010

  • "through difficulties to the stars".

    June 12, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Good people of Oz, this is positively the

    finest exhibition ever to be shown --

    (stammers)

    -- yes -- well -- be that as it may -- I,

    your Wizard par ardua ad alta, am about to

    embark upon a hazardous and technically

    unexplainable journey into the outer

    stratosphere.

    June 12, 2010

  • WITCH

    You stay out of this! I'm here for

    vengeance! So it was you, was it? You killed

    her,....

    June 11, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Well, you can't. As for you, my fine

    friend -- you're a victim of disorganized

    thinking. You are under the unfortunate

    delusion that simply because you run away

    from danger, you have no courage. You're

    confusing courage with wisdom. Back where

    I come from, we have men who are called

    heroes. Once a year, they take their

    fortitude out of mothballs and parade it

    down the main street of the city. And they

    have no more courage than you have. But!

    They have one thing that you haven't got!

    A medal! Therefore -- for meritorious....

    conduct, extraordinary valor, conspicuous

    bravery against wicked witches, I award you

    the Triple Cross.

    June 11, 2010

  • WIZARD

    This is a highly irregular procedure! This

    is absolutely unprecedented!

    June 11, 2010

  • WIZARD

    ...back where I come from there are men who

    do nothing all day but good deeds. They

    are called phil...er -- er -- phil -- er,

    yes...good-deed-doers. And their hearts

    are no bigger than yours. But! They have

    one thing you haven't got! A testimonial

    June 11, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Therefore, by virtue of the authority

    vested in me by the Universitatus

    Committeeatum e plurbis unum, I hereby

    confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D

    June 11, 2010

  • AUNT EM

    Here, here, what's all this jabber-wapping

    when there's work to be done? I know three

    shiftless farm hands that'll be out of a

    job before they know it!

    June 11, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Good people of Oz, this is positively the

    finest exhibition ever to be shown --

    (stammers)

    -- yes -- well -- be that as it may -- I,

    your Wizard par ardua ad alta, am about to

    embark upon a hazardous and technically

    unexplainable journey into the outer

    stratosphere.

    June 11, 2010

  • LION

    That certain air of savoir faire

    In the Merry Old Land of Oz!

    June 11, 2010

  • SCARECROW

    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've got a brain!

    June 11, 2010

  • sings)

    Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy

    When you're born to be a sissy,

    Without the vim and verve.

    But I could show my prowess --

    Be a lion not a mou-ess --

    If I only had the nerve

    I'm afraid there's no denyin'

    I'm just a dande-lion --

    A fate I don't deserve.

    I'd be brave as a blizzard --

    June 11, 2010

  • LION

    (sings)

    Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy

    When you're born to be a sissy,

    Without the vim and verve.

    But I could show my prowess --

    Be a lion not a mou-ess --

    If I only had the nerve

    I'm afraid there's no denyin'

    I'm just a dande-lion --

    A fate I don't deserve.

    I'd be brave as a blizzard --

    June 11, 2010

  • LION

    (sings)

    Yeh, it's sad, believe me, Missy

    When you're born to be a sissy,

    Without the vim and verve.

    But I could show my prowess --

    Be a lion not a mou-ess --

    If I only had the nerve

    I'm afraid there's no denyin'

    I'm just a dande-lion --

    A fate I don't deserve.

    I'd be brave as a blizzard --

    June 11, 2010

  • SCARECROW

    Oh, I'm not feeling at all well. You see,

    it's very tedious being stuck up here all

    day long with a pole up your back.

    June 11, 2010

  • PROFESSOR

    Better get under cover, Sylvester --

    there's a storm blowing up -- a whopper, to

    speak in the vernacular of the peasantry.

    Poor little kid -- I hope she gets home all

    right.

    June 11, 2010

  • PROFESSOR

    Better get under cover, Sylvester --

    there's a storm blowing up -- a whopper, to

    speak in the vernacular of the peasantry.

    Poor little kid -- I hope she gets home all

    right.

    June 11, 2010

  • GLINDA

    Well, I'm a little muddled. The Munchkins

    called me because a new witch has just

    dropped a house on the Wicked Witch of the

    East. And there's the house, and here you

    are, and that's all...

    June 11, 2010

  • WIZARD

    As for you, my galvanized friend, you want

    a heart! You don't know how lucky you are

    not to have one. Hearts will never be

    practical until they can be made

    unbreakable. I could have been a world

    figure, a power among men, a - a successful

    wizard, had I not been obstructed by a heart.

    June 11, 2010

  • DOROTHY

    Please, sir. We've done what you told us.

    We've brought you the broomstick of the

    Wicked Witch of the West. We melted her.

    OZ'S VOICE

    Oh ....

    ...you liquidated her, eh? Very....

    ...resourceful!

    June 11, 2010

  • DOROTHY

    Please, sir. We've done what you told us.

    We've brought you the broomstick of the

    Wicked Witch of the West. We melted her.

    OZ'S VOICE

    Oh ....

    ...you liquidated her, eh? Very....

    ...resourceful!

    June 11, 2010

  • PROFESSOR

    That's right. Here -- sit right down here.

    That's it. Ha ha! This -- this is the same

    genuine, magic, authentic crystal used by

    the Priests of Isis and Osiris in the days

    of the Pharaohs of Egypt -- in which

    Cleopatra first saw the approach of Julius

    Caesar and Marc Anthony, and -- and so on

    -- and so on. Now, you -- you'd better

    close your eyes, my child, for a moment --

    in order to be better in tune with the

    infinite. We -- we can't do these things

    without....

    ...reaching out into the....

    ...infinite. Yes.

    June 11, 2010

  • LION

    (sings)

    And the sparrow would take wing

    'F -- I...'f -- I...were King!

    Each rabbit would show respect to me. The

    chipmunks...

    ...genuflect to me.

    Though my tail would lash

    I would show compash

    For every underling.

    'F -- I...'f -- I --- were King

    Just King!....

    June 11, 2010

  • WIZARD

    As for you, my galvanized friend, you want

    a heart! You don't know how lucky you are

    not to have one. Hearts will never be

    practical until they can be made

    unbreakable. I could have been a world

    figure, a power among men, a - a successful

    wizard, had I not been obstructed by a heart.

    June 11, 2010

  • TIN MAN

    (sings)

    When a man's an empty kettle,

    He should be on his mettle.

    And yet I'm torn apart.

    Just because I'm presumin'

    That I could be kind-a human,

    If I only had a heart.

    June 10, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Well, you can't. As for you, my fine

    friend -- you're a victim of disorganized

    thinking. You are under the unfortunate

    delusion that simply because you run away

    from danger, you have no courage. You're

    confusing courage with wisdom. Back where

    I come from, we have men who are called

    heroes. Once a year, they take their

    fortitude out of mothballs and parade it

    down the main street of the city. And they

    have no more courage than you have. But!

    They have one thing that you haven't got!

    A medal! Therefore -- for meritorious....

    conduct, extraordinary valor, conspicuous

    bravery against wicked witches, I award you

    the Triple Cross.

    June 10, 2010

  • AUNT EM

    I saw you tinkering with that contraption,

    Hickory. Now, you and Hunk get back to that

    wagon!

    June 10, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Well, you can't. As for you, my fine

    friend -- you're a victim of disorganized

    thinking. You are under the unfortunate

    delusion that simply because you run away

    from danger, you have no courage. You're

    confusing courage with wisdom. Back where

    I come from, we have men who are called

    heroes. Once a year, they take their

    fortitude out of mothballs and parade it

    down the main street of the city. And they

    have no more courage than you have. But!

    They have one thing that you haven't got!

    A medal! Therefore -- for meritorious....

    conduct, extraordinary valor, conspicuous

    bravery against wicked witches, I award you

    the Triple Cross.

    June 10, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Well, you can't. As for you, my fine

    friend -- you're a victim of disorganized

    thinking. You are under the unfortunate

    delusion that simply because you run away

    from danger, you have no courage. You're

    confusing courage with wisdom. Back where

    I come from, we have men who are called

    heroes. Once a year, they take their

    fortitude out of mothballs and parade it

    down the main street of the city. And they

    have no more courage than you have. But!

    They have one thing that you haven't got!

    A medal! Therefore -- for meritorious....

    conduct, extraordinary valor, conspicuous

    bravery against wicked witches, I award you

    the Triple Cross.

    June 10, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a

    very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous

    creature that crawls on the earth -- or

    slinks through slimy seas has a brain!

    June 10, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a

    very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous

    creature that crawls on the earth -- or

    slinks through slimy seas has a brain!

    June 10, 2010

  • WIZARD

    ...I -- ah -- on the contr -- -- Here --

    Well, you force me into a cataclysmic

    decision. The only way to get Dorothy back

    to Kansas is for me to take her there myself!

    June 10, 2010

  • OZ'S VOICE

    You billowing bale of bovine fodder!

    June 10, 2010

  • Not really "electromagnetism"

    June 9, 2010

  • APP as in Application for iAnything

    June 9, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Therefore, by virtue of the authority

    vested in me by the Universitatus

    Committeeatum e plurbis unum, I hereby

    confer upon you the honorary degree of Th.D.

    June 9, 2010

  • PROFESSOR

    Yes, there's -- there's a woman -- she's....

    ...she's wearing a polka-dot dress....

    ...her face is careworn.

    June 9, 2010

  • OZ'S VOICE

    You dare to come to me for a heart, do you?

    You clinking, clanking, clattering

    collection of caliginous....junk!

    June 9, 2010

  • OZ'S VOICE

    And you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to

    ask for a brain?

    June 7, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Times being what they were, I accepted the

    job, -- retaining my balloon against the

    advent of a quick get-away.

    (laughs)

    And in that balloon, my dear Dorothy, you

    and I will return to the land of E Pluribus

    Unum!

    June 7, 2010

  • WIZARD

    Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a

    very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous

    creature that crawls on the earth -- or

    slinks through slimy seas has a brain!

    June 2, 2010

  • CORONER

    As Coroner, I must aver

    I thoroughly examined her.

    And she's not only merely dead,

    She's really, most sincerely dead.

    June 2, 2010

  • As Mayor of the Munchkin City

    In the County of the Land of Oz

    I welcome you most regally

    June 2, 2010