I had a friend who was rejected by the Marines. He had housemaid's knee, or something was wrong with him.

7 seconds sound clip from the Desk Set (1957) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:13:41 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

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- No, no, no, I got dozens of letters, but, uh...

- Imagine sitting on an ice cap in Greenland and getting a 6 page letter telling me that the women's neckline was going to go up the following year. Now, if she'd told me that it was going down, I might have had some reason to...

- Then the next letter would be something about the hem skirt was going to be lower.

- I don't exactly look like a fellow who's interested in women's fashions, do I?

- Not even in men's.

- Well, what did you do?

- I had a friend who was rejected by the Marines. He had housemaid's knee, or something was wrong with him.

- Anyway, so I asked him to look her up, and, you know, keep her from being lonely, and he did.

- And then I got the Dear John letter.

- That was a dirty trick.

- What are you talking about? They're very happily married.

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