I didn’t ask her to change you into a bear! I just asked her to change…you.
No, Ace. Just you.
Well, yeah. That’s why I’m here, ya know? To change.
We are who we choose to be.
How do you like me now?
There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance. You’re the worst kind; you’re high maintenance, but you think you’re low maintenance. You don’t see that? “Waiter, I’ll begin with a house salad, but I don’t want the regular dressing. I’ll have the balsamic vinegar and oil - but on the side. And then the salmon with the mustard sauce - but I want the mustard sauce on the side.” “On the side” is a very big thing for you.
God knows, you girls keep trying. Treating your men like side dishes. Stick a fork in when needed-just like men used to treat us.
Yes, I think a trial period will be quite in order.
No, Justice Scalia, I would say there is no line between the two. Because really, what you’re talking about a matter of taste, not law. As you yourself said, I believe, in Pope vs. Illinois, “It’s useless to argue about taste and even more useless to litigate it.” And that is the case here. The jury has already determined for us that this is a matter of taste and not a matter of law, because they’ve said there’s no libelous speech - that nobody could reasonably believe that Hustler was actually suggesting Jerry Falwell had sex with his mother.
Hustler puts him and his mother together in a example of literary travesty, if you will. It serves the same public purpose as Garry Trudeau saying Reagan has no brain, or that George Bush is a wimp. It lets us look at public figures a little bit differently. We have a long tradition in this country of satiric commentary. Now, if Jerry Falwell can sue when there has been no libelous speech, purely on the grounds of emotional distress, then so can other public figures. Imagine, if you will, suits against people like Garry Trudeau, and Johnny Carson for what he says on The Tonight Show. Obviously, when people criticize public figures, they’re going to experience emotional distress. We all know that. It’s easiest thing in the world to claim and it’s impossible to refute, and that’s what makes it a meaningless standard. Really, all it does is allow us to punish unpopular speech. This country is founded, at least in part, on the firm belief that unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.
Yeah, I was just gonna tell you to shut the fuck up.
Even before you start . . . that was a pre-emptive shh.
Something awful happened here. I can feel it. Something awful.
It’s not that bad. Well, I’m not saying I’d like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.
If I were creating a world, I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, day one.
In this replacement Earth we’re building they’ve given me Africa to do and of course I’m doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them, and I’m old fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. And they tell me it’s not equatorial enough. Equatorial!
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
Cue the deer.
See the moose?
Have you liquidated moose and squirrel?
Rodents of unusual size? I don’t believe they exist.