Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Ball of Fire (1941)

Garbage Man: I could use a bundle of scratch 

right now on account of I met me a mouse last week.

Prof. Oddly: Mouse?

Garbage Man: What a pair of gams. A little in,

a little out, and a little more out.

Professor Potts: I am still completely mystified.

Garbage Man: Well, with this dish on me hands

and them giving away 25 smackaroos on that quizzola.

Professor Potts: Smackaroos?

Prof. Oddly: Smackaroos? What are smackaroos?

Garbage Man: A smackaroo is a...

Professor Potts: No such word exists.

Garbage Man: Oh, it don't, huh? A smackaroo is a dollar, pal.

Professor Potts: Well, the accepted 

vulgarism for a dollar is a buck.

Garbage Man: The accepted vulgarism 

for a smackaroo is a dollar. 

That goes for a banger, a fish, a buck, or a rug.

Professor Potts: Well, what about the mouse?

Garbage Man: The mouse is the dish. 

That's what I need the moolah for.

Prof. Oddly: Moolah?

Garbage Man: Yeah, the dough. We'll be stepping. 

Me and the smooch - I mean, the dish, I mean, the mouse. 

You know, hit the jiggles for a little drum boogie.

Professor Potts: Please, please, not so fast.

Garbage Man: Brother, we're going to have some hoytoytoy.

All The Profs: Hoytoytoy?

Garbage Man: Yeah, and if you want 

that one explained, you go ask your papas.

The script for Ball of Fire is so much fun (not a surprise given Billy Wilder was one of the writers)  that I had to share this entire lengthy passage of dialogue -- god I love this film. I didn't even need to include a portion involving Barbara Stanwyck here -- that's how you know it's good! But since I tend to give her all of the love for this movie I figured I'd focus in on her stellar leading man Gary Cooper today, given it's Coop's birthday. He was born today, the year 1901. Check out our extensive Gary Cooper Archives for more of him -- he's a forever MNPP fave, he is. One of the greatest faces (et cetera) ever put on screen.