Professor Bertram Potts:
I've just finished my article on slang. Twenty-three pages compiled from a dozen reference books. Eight hundred examples. Everything from the idiotic combination "absotively" to the pejorative use of "zigzag." I traced the evolution of "hunky dory," tracked down "skiddo" from "skedaddle." Eight hundred examples and I may as well throw it in the waste basket. Three weeks' work.
Prof. Robinson:
Potts, you're hysterical.
Professor Bertram Potts:
Outmoded. Based on reference books 20 years old. Take "smooch." Take "dish." Take...
Prof. Oddly:
Hoytoytoy?
Professor Bertram Potts:
Hoytoytoy. Not one of them included. Living in this house cut off from the world, I've lost touch. And it's inexcusable! That man talked a living language. I embalmed some dead phrases.
Prof. Gurkakoff:
But where are you going?
Professor Bertram Potts:
Out to collect new data, to tap the sources of slang, the major sources. The streets. The slums. The theatrical and allied professions.
Prof. Robinson:
Oh, now, Potts, don't you think that...
Professor Bertram Potts:
I know it's regrettable, this loss of time, gentlemen, but it must be done. Leave the key under the mat. I won't be home before 9 o'clock.
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