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Clips from The Tender Bar

"-Hi. -Hey."
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"-Hey, I'm Jimmy. -JR."
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"Oh. Well, what does JR stand for?"
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"-Jackie Robinson. -Really?"
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"Nah, it's "Junior.""
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"I was expecting a kind of Brideshead Revisited thing."
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"This is bullshit."
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"-This taken? -JR andNo."
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"-I'm Wesley. -I'm Jimmy."
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"Jimmy? Jim's good."
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"-JR. -JR. What does that stand for?"
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"-Jackie Robinson. -No shit."
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"No, it's "Junior.""
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"All right."
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"Junior, JR."
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"Jimmy, Jim."
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"It's our first night at Yale."
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"-Yeah. -Yeah."
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"Let's get fucked-up."
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"(Jimmy chuckles)"
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"You will be making the acquaintance"
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"of Satan."
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"Not in your own worst impulses"
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"or among your friends--"
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"though you will, in each case--"
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"but in Paradise Lost."
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"For the time being, in this class, though I beat against barbarous current,"
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"I still teach Western literature,"
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"in which everything derives from two epic poems,"
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"the Iliad and the Odyssey,"
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"handily contained for you in one book,"
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"edited and translated by me."
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"The Iliad and the Odyssey are the two seedlings,"
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"the "poyims" 3,000 years old..."
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"What's a "poyim"?"
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"Somebody who's not Jewish."
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"The Iliad and the Odyssey are universal."
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"They are stories about going home."
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"You will start by reading half the Iliad"
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"and write me a ten-page paper."
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"Any questions? Yes."
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"Uh, a paper on what?"
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"The first half of the Iliad."
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"No, right, but on what subject?"
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"The first half of the Iliad."
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"He's throwing down."
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"Now, as some of you hopefully may know,"
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"the Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter..."
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"-Hey. -Hmm?"
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"-Who is that? -Who?"
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"In the purple."
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"-- Ah. She goes out with Stinky. -- Stinky?"
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"Yeah, he's wealthy."
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"...grand style of Western classical poetry."
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"So take note of these and other examples of its use"
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"as you make your way through the text."
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"Ovid's Metamorphos..."
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"(crickets chirping)"
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"Because everything I see is unattainable."
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"That's because you're probably being a pussy."
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"Well, if you're made to read the greatest things ever written,"
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"that you couldn't do, and make you feel like shit,"
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"then how are you supposed to become a writer?"
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"Socrates says you learn more from a bad book than a good one."
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"Aristotle. I think."
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"If you go to Yale but you don't have any balls,"
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"how are you supposed to be a student at Yale?"
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"I'm just here on a lucky break. It's just a lucky break."
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"I mean, I can do Wordy Gurdy all day long,"
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"but I cannot figure out what the fuck they are saying in Henry V."
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"We're all here on a lucky break, douchebag."
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"I'm Lucky Sperm Club, and no one's ever noticed that I'm an idiot."
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"It's also luck. Everybody's lucky."
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"Everybody alive is lucky"
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"and were descended from the lucky."
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"Our ancestors were all either fast, smart"
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"or had really fucking good immune systems."
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"Luck, asshole-- it's why we're all here."
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"Hmm. I never thought about it like that."
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"You see, you're believing in society's bullshit interpretation"
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"of you and everything else, and that is why you can't write."
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"Not because Homer makes you think you suck."
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"(chuckles softly)"
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"I'd really like for you to meet my Uncle Charlie."
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"What's he do?"
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"He runs a bar."
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"I would really like to meet your Uncle Charlie."
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"("Dynaflow" by Parish Hall playing)"
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"(indistinct chatter)"
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"-(door opens) -You got your I.D.'s, right?"
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"Hey! The fuck are you guys doing here?"
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"Jesus Christ."
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"What about these rejects?"
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"Hmm. Okay."
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"Well, welcome to our shores, Jim."
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"Hey, I got an announcement."
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"-(bell jingling) -Everybody,"
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"according to the laws of the sovereign state of New York,"
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"today, my nephew is officially a man."
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"And so are his friends legally men."
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"-The law is fucked! -Get these assholes a drink on me."
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"Fuck you. First one is mine."
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"Mine."
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"Then you guys are backed up on Joey D."
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"-What do you want? -Wow. Uh..."
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"Well, I don't even know what to have."
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"I think a Yale man should drink gin myself,"
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"but... big decision, Chief."
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"Whatever you assholes choose now is what I'm gonna pour"
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"every time you walk in the door-- forever."
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"But you got to have a drink-- your drink."
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"(sighs) Gin makes me crazy."
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"We can handle that. We can handle anything."
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"I make an excellent gin martini."
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"The secret is a few drops of Scotch."
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"Come on, Chaz, back 'em up on me."
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"Back 'em up on me, too, Charlie."
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"Goodness. Evidently, tonight, you guys are backed up on Chief and Joey D."
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"Fasten your fucking seat belt."
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"(horns honking)"
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