# "Please, baby, I am not from Havana!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528 "2007-10-04T18:50:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/21 "2007-10-05T13:31:21Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Especially since the previous scene originally ended with the exchange: “Tell me, schatze…is it true what they say about how you people are…gifted?” ziiiiip “Oh, it’s twue. It’s twue, it’s twue!” “Pardon me, but you’re sucking on my arm.” (This line was edited out of the theatrical release.) 😃 [/QUOTE] “Bart! Bart! They told us you was hung!” “And they was right.” ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/22 "2007-10-05T17:20:04Z")
“Dock that chink a day’s pay for nappin’ on the job.” ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/23 "2007-10-05T20:36:57Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Mel Brooks has said that people assume that Pryor came up with all the edgy racial jokes but he says Pryor actually wrote almost none of the racial humor in the movie. He says that what Pryor did do was invent the character of Mongo and write all his lines. [/QUOTE] Mongo only pawn… in game of life. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/24 "2007-10-05T20:52:42Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] Back when Cuba was under Batista and still a wretched hive of scum and villainy for depraved Americans to get their kicks, there was a nightclub performer, as well-known as he was well-endowed, who went by the moniker of “Superman” and specialised in live sex shows. He gets a fair bit of mention in the literature of the period, including Graham Greene’s _Our Man In Havana_. [/QUOTE] What he said. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/25 "2007-10-05T21:26:31Z")
Sorry guys, can’t help myself, I love this movie. Hedley Lamarr: “My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention…” Taggart: “Ditto!” ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/26 "2007-10-05T21:31:05Z")
Since we’re all here anyway, I might as well fight any residual ignorance on the joke about the governor’s name: [Lepetomane](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_394.html), since The Master has addressed the issue and all. (And just another bit of fun - whenever hubby or I is having trouble getting one item into another - threading a needle, putting a pen cap on, and such, the other person will invariably say, “Think of your secretary . . .”) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/27 "2007-10-05T22:01:14Z")
[sub]“You’ll have to forgive me; I’m not very used to public speaking.”[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/28 "2007-10-05T23:52:27Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] Sorry guys, can’t help myself, I love this movie. Hedley Lamarr: “My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention…” Taggart: “Ditto!” [/QUOTE] God darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a twenty dollar whore. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/29 "2007-10-06T04:39:11Z")
“You will be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost-certain Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor.” ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/30 "2007-10-06T06:30:39Z")
Someone says “whilst” in _Blazing Saddles_? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2007, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528/31 "2007-10-06T07:28:55Z")
Anyone who can say “My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention…” can also say “whilst”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-baby-i-am-not-from-havana/421528.md?page=1)