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...
17 seconds sound clip from the Desk Set (1957) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:13:14 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You had occasion to measure her?
- Among other things, yes, yes.
- If it hadn't been for the war, I...
- Uh-oh. You got a Dear John letter.
- No, no, no, I got dozens of letters, but, uh...
- 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?
- Anyway, so I asked him to look her up, and, you know, keep her from being lonely, and he did.
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