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FSogol

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5. That's big of you too.
Thu Sep 4, 2014, 01:59 PM
Sep 2014

Spaulding: Here I am talkin' of parties. I came down here for a party. What happens? Nothing. Not even ice cream. The gods looked down and laughed. This would be a better world for children if the parents had to eat the spinach. (He steps back and proposes marriage to both of them.) Well, what do you say, girls? What do you say? Are we all gonna get married?

Mrs. Rittenhouse: All of us?

Spaulding: All of us!

Mrs. Rittenhouse: But that's bigamy!

Spaulding: Yes, and that's big-a-me, too...It's big of all of us. Let's be big for a change. I'm sick of these conventional marriages! One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Nobody, not even your grandfather. Think, think of the honeymoon, strictly private. I wouldn't let another woman in on this. Well, maybe one or two but no men. I may not go myself.

Mrs. Rittenhouse: Are you suggesting companionate marriage?

Spaulding: Well, it's got its advantages. You could live with your folks and I could live with your folks. (To Mrs. Whitehead) And you, you could sell Fuller Brushes.

- Groucho Marx of course from Animal Crackers.

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