- You ever hear of a telegraph vine?
- Not recently.
- Or the... Is it the Acanthus Century plant, Dr. Stern?
- Yes.

10 seconds sound clip from the The Thing from Another World movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:46:47 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- On the planet from which our visitor came, vegetable life underwent an evolution similar to that of our own animal life, which would account for the superiority of its brain. Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors.

- Doctor, you're a man who won the Nobel Prize. You've received every kind of international kudos a scientist can attain. If you were for sale, I could get a million bucks for you from any foreign government.

- I'm not therefore going to stick my neck out and say that you're stuffed absolutely clean full of wild blueberry muffins, but I promise you my readers are gonna think so.

- Not for long, not if they happen to know anything about the flora of their own planet.

- You mean there are vegetables right here on earth that can... think?

- A certain kind of thinking, yes.

- You ever hear of a telegraph vine?

- Not recently.

- Or the... Is it the Acanthus Century plant, Dr. Stern?

- Yes.

- Go ahead, doctor. That's your field.

- Well, the century plant catches mice, bats, squirrels, any small mammals. Uses a sweet syrup as bait, then holds on to its catch and feeds on it.

- And what's the telegraph vine?

- Well, a vine, research has proven, can signal to other vines of the same species. Vines, twenty to, well, a hundred miles away.

- Intelligence in plants and vegetables is an old story, older even than the animal arrogance that has overlooked it.

- That's one for Ripley.

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