What We Have To Understand About Russian Leaders

What We Have To Understand About Russian Leaders

What we have to understand that as far

as The Russians are concerned 

uh, that they at one moment can

be very Russian and another woman can be

very communist uh it's like a Dr Joo Mr

Hyde syndrome that works uh I have such

vivid Recollections of that both with

regard to Kruschev but also with regard to

Brezhnev uh we would have for example 

a very very tough argument uh with

Brezhnev uh and then we go up to dinner as we

did at adasha afterwards and he would be

raising his glass and toasting the

grandchildren etc etc etc now I don't

mean by that that it was an act either

the first time or the second time what I

mean is that there are split

personalities there and my conclusion

basically is this we have to understand

the world as it is Russians and

Americans can be friends

and everybody must remember that we were

friends and we were allies too Russians

and Americans were were

too but the governments of the United

States and the Soviet Union can never be

friends because our goals are totally

different so what we have to do then is

to find a way uh to deal with the

Russian leaders as much as we can as

Russians recognizing also that as

Communists uh that they do not have our

best interest to put it mildly in mind I

think too that uh another recollection

that I have of brf that is interesting

is the way that he was so physical in

his contact he he was a man uh who was

always grabby in his conversation or

when I was riding along uh after being

in the Crimea to the airport in the car

and he put his hand over on my leg and

this and it I felt that I was in the

Oval Office with Lyndon Johnson uh cuz

Johnson also I did I just think it's a

shame that those two never got together

it would really been a a a bear wrestle

uh but uh the but on the other hand I

would say

that that while

brf uh was without question a ruthless

tough uh communist he could be a very

warm generous Uh Russian he could be

like a little boy with his collection of

cars for example uh and he drove like a

madman practically scared me to death

one time when we' given him a new lincol

and he drove over the single Lane roads

up in Camp David uh going around curves

that I wouldn't even take a 30 mil hour

we were going 60 and he got after we got

out of the car he said you know this car

handles very

well one of the prices of

diplomacy

Madman

The Truth About The "Madman" Theory

It isn't just what I would call 

A Madman Theory 

I think that overstates it uh --

I remember Johnson telling me in

1959 -- or 69 I should say -- uh 

that Johnson told me, when he came to 

The White House that he felt that one of his mistakes

was to give The Soviet an impression uh

that, uh we wanted peace and we would pay

almost any price to get it uh -- he said, uh --

He said one of the advantages at Ike had -- 

-- he referred, he always called him "Ike", 

I never did but he said 

one of the advantages that Ike had was 

that The Russians were afraid of Ike 

afraid of him because he had been the great

commander in World War II, and because of

his military background and just because

of the kind of man he was, even though

Eisenhower was a very amiable, pleasant

grandfatherly type but they knew that

beneath that exterior was a very cold

tough fella

Do you think they were afraid of you? 

Oh yes  -- well they were afraid of me 

though not because of my appearances

and not because of my speeches but

because what I had done. 

There is nothing that added more to my credibility

certainly with The Russians and with

others as well, than that I took great

risks in order to bring The War in

Vietnam to a to a conclusion, to assure

the withdrawal of our forces uh --

The incursion into Cambodia uh the purpose

of that was to shorten the war to make

sure that our withdrawal program could

go forward on schedule uh -- and to save

American lives and it worked -- uh the fact

that be three weeks before the summit

meeting in Moscow which we wanted which

they wanted as well, that we bombed and

mined Hyphong uh -- after there was a great

North Vietnamese offensive supported by

Soviet tanks and guns which 

we could not tolerate --

I remember people said "Well, you can still go 

to Moscow even though Saigon is lost,

I said "No Way!" I said, "We -- I can't

be sitting across the table from Breznhev

when Soviet tanks are rumbling through

the streets of Saigon and that's why we

did what we did and despite all the

predictions by some of our Soviet experts 

to the effect that they would have no choice 

but to cancel the summit, it made them 

really I think more eager to have it and 

the other thing which I think may have had 

some impact on their thinking was that 

even after the elections of 1972 uh -- 

The December Bombing which was the

critical action was taken in order to

break the deadlock in Paris and 

have The Peace Negotiation uh --

that was a very difficult decision 

but it was necessary --

Now all of these actions you don't take them in

order to prove that You're a Madman or

that You're a tough guy or a macho, 

or all the rest,  it's simply you take them 

when it is in the interest 

of your foreign policy and also 

to make sure that you are 

a credible leader when you meet 

with others or when they  take actions 

that you want to oppose.

Mine is an Evil Laugh

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"For years I was the personification of everything evil, everything rotten in this country.

Yeah, you dumped all 

your own criminality off on me. 

I was Your Goat.

It's your own Judgment, now. 

The Judgment 

you're making on Me 

is only A Mirror.

You have to carry the burden 

of The Image you created."

-- Manson

“I don’t know what I thought 

when it happened.... 

I just think a lot of 

the things he says are True --

That he’s A Child of The State, 

made by Us. 

That he took Their Children in 

when nobody else would … 

But of course he’s cracked, all right … 

he’s barmy.”

-- Lennon.

scarf (n.1)

[band of silk, strip of cloth], 1550s, "a band worn across the body or over the shoulders," probably from Old North French escarpe "sash, sling," which probably is identical with Old French escherpe "pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck," perhaps from Frankish *skirpja or some other Germanic source (compare Old Norse skreppa "small bag, wallet, satchel"), or from Medieval Latin scirpa "little bag woven of rushes," from Latin scirpus "rush, bulrush," which is of unknown origin [Klein].

It also is attested in early Modern English as scarp. OED points to "the change of the initial p into f after liquids". 

As a cold-weather covering of warm and soft material for the neck, by 1844. Plural scarfs began to yield to scarves early 18c., on model of half/halves, etc.

also from 1550s

scarf (n.2)

[connecting joint in carpentry, the ends being cut or notched so as to fit into each other], late 13c. (implied in scarf-nail), probably from a Scandinavian source, such as Old Norse skarfr "nail for fastening a joint; diagonally cut end of a board," Swedish skarf, Norwegian skarv, from Proto-Germanic *skarfaz, source also of Dutch scherf, Old English scearfe "a fragment, piece"(from PIE root *sker- (1) "to cut"). Also used as a verb, "unite by means of a scarf" (1620s). Also borrowed into Romanic (French écart, Spanish escarba).

also from late 13c.

scarf (v.)

"eat hastily," 1960, U.S. teen slang, originally a noun meaning "food, meal" (1932), perhaps imitative, or from nautical slang scoff "eat hastily or voraciously, devour" which is attested from 1846 (compare U.S. tramps slang scoffing "food, something to eat," 1907). This is said to be a variant of scaff (by 1797) in the same sense, and scaff (n.) "food, provisions" is attested from 1768, but the group is of obscure origin. Perhaps the word comes ultimately from some survival of Old English sceorfan "to gnaw, bite" (see scarf (n.2)). South African scoff (n.) is said to be a colloquial representation of Dutch schoft "quarter of a day," hence "each of the meals of a day." Related: Scarfed; scarfing.

also from 1960

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*sker- (1)

also *ker-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cut."

It forms all or part of: bias; carnage; carnal; carnation; carnival; carnivorous; carrion; cenacle; charcuterie; charnel; corium; cortex; crone; cuirass; currier; curt; decorticate; excoriate; incarnadine; incarnate; incarnation; kirtle; scabbard; scar (n.2) "bare and broken rocky face of a cliff or mountain;" scaramouche; scarf (n.2) "connecting joint;" scarp; score; scrabble; scrap (n.1) "small piece;" scrape; screen; screw; scrimmage; scrofula; scrub (n.1) "low, stunted tree;" scurf; shard; share (n.1) "portion;" share (n.2) "iron blade of a plow;" sharp; shear; shears; sheer (adj.) "absolute, utter;" shirt; shore (n.) "land bordering a large body of water;" short; shrub; skerry; skirmish; skirt.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit krnati "hurts, wounds, kills," krntati "cuts;" Hittite karsh- "to cut off;" Greek keirein "to cut, shear;" Latin curtus "short," caro (genitive carnis) "flesh" (originally "piece of flesh"); Lithuanian skiriu, skirti "to separate;" Old English sceran, scieran "to cleave, hew, cut with a sharp instrument;" Old Irish scaraim "I separate;" Welsh ysgar "to separate," ysgyr "fragment."

snarf (v.)

"to take, grab," by 1989, probably imitative (compare scarf (v.)). Related: Snarfed; snarfing.

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nostalgia (n.)

Origin and meaning of nostalgia

1726, "morbid longing to return to one's home or native country, severe homesickness considered as a disease," Modern Latin, coined 1688 in a dissertation on the topic at the University of Basel by scholar Johannes Hofer (1669-1752) as a rendering of German heimweh "homesickness" (for which see home + woe).

From Greek algos "pain, grief, distress" (see -algia) + nostos "homecoming," from neomai "to reach some place, escape, return, get home," from PIE *nes- "to return safely home" (cognate with Old Norse nest "food for a journey," Sanskrit nasate "approaches, joins," German genesen "to recover," Gothic ganisan "to heal," Old English genesen "to recover"). French nostalgie is in French army medical manuals by 1754.

Originally in reference to The Swiss and said to be peculiar to them and often fatal, whether by its own action or in combination with wounds or disease.

[Dr. Scheuzer] had said that the air enclosed in the bodies of his countrymen, being in Æquilibrium with a rare and light air that surrounds them, was overloaded in lower countries with an air more dense and heavier, which compressing and obstructing the capillary vessels, makes the circulation slow and difficult, and occasions many sad symptoms. 

— Account of the publication 

of "Areographia Helvetiæ" 

in New Memoirs of Literature, 

London, March 1726

By 1830s the word was used of any intense homesickness : that of sailors, convicts, African slaves. 

"The bagpipes produced the same effects sometimes in the Scotch regiments while serving abroad" 

— Penny Magazine," 

Nov. 14, 1840

It is listed among the "endemic diseases" in the "Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine" 

London, 1833, edited by three M.D.s , which defines it as "The concourse of depressing symptoms which sometimes arise in persons who are absent from their native country, when they are seized with a longing desire of returning to their home and friends and the scenes their youth ...."

It was a military medical diagnosis principally, and was considered a serious medical problem by The North in The American Civil War :

In the first two years of The War, there were reported 2588 cases of nostalgia, and 13 deaths from this cause. These numbers scarcely express the real extent to which nostalgia influenced the sickness and mortality of the army. To the depressing influence of home-sickness must be attributed the fatal result in many cases which might otherwise have terminated favourably. 

— "Sanitary Memoirs of the War," 

U.S. Sanitary Commission, N.Y.: 1867

Transferred sense (the main modern one) of "wistful yearning for the past" is recorded by 1920, perhaps from such use of nostalgie in French literature. The longing for a distant place also necessarily involves a separation in time.

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nostalgic (adj.)

1782, in medical writings, "relating to, characteristic of, or affected with nostalgia, homesick" (in nostalgic insanity), from nostalgia + -ic. The modern weaker sense of "evoking a wistful and sentimental yearning for the past" is by 1842. Related: Nostalgically.

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homesickness (n.)

1756, translating German Heimweh, from Heim "home" (see home (n.)) + Weh "woe, pain;" the compound is from Swiss dialect, expressing a longing for the mountains, and was introduced to other European languages 17c. by Swiss mercenaries. Also see nostalgia.

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Nestor 

name for a counselor wise from experience, or, generally, the oldest and most experienced man of a class or company, 1580s, from Greek Nestōr, name of the aged and wise hero in the "Iliad," king of Pylos, who outlived three generations. Klein says the name is literally "one who blesses," and is related to nostimos "blessed;" Watkins connects it with the root of the first element in nostalgia.

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harness (n.)

c. 1300, "personal fighting equipment, body armor," also "armor or trappings of a war-horse," from Old French harnois, a noun of broad meaning: "arms, equipment; harness; male genitalia; tackle; household equipment" (12c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse *hernest "provisions for an army," from herr "army" (see harry (v.)) + nest "provisions" (see nostalgia). Non-military sense of "fittings for a beast of burden" is from early 14c. German Harnisch "harness, armor" is the French word, borrowed into Middle High German. The Celtic words are believed to be also from French, as are Spanish arnes, Portuguese arnez, Italian arnese. Prive harness (late 14c.) was a Middle English term for "sex organs."

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Madeleine 

fem. proper name, variation of Madeline. The kind of small, rich confection is attested from 1845, said in OED to be named for Madeleine Paulmier, 19c. French pastry cook; any use with a sense of "small thing that evokes powerful nostalgia" is due to Proust (1922).

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nineties (n.)

1857 as the years of someone's life between 90 and 99; from 1848 as the tenth decade of years in a given century; 1849 with reference to Fahrenheit temperature. See ninety.

Many still live who remember those days; if the old men cannot tell you the exact date, they will say: 'It were in the nineties;' (etc.) 

— Chambers's Journal, 

Nov. 1, 1856

Related: Ninetyish "characteristic of the (eighteen-) nineties" (1909). In Britain, the naughty nineties was a popular name 1920s-30s for the 1890s, based on the notion of a relaxing of morality and mood in contrast to earlier Victorian times. In U.S., gay nineties in reference to the same decade is attested from 1927, and was the title of a regular nostalgia feature in "Life" magazine about that time.

The long, dreary blue-law Sunday afternoons were periods of the Nineties which no amount of rosy retrospect will ever be able to recall as gay, especially to a normal healthy boy to whom all activities were taboo except G. A. Henty and the bound volumes of Leslie's Weekly of the Civil War. 

— Life magazine, 

Sept. 1, 1927

 

Cosmic Edge-Lords

SCULLY :

No exam has been done?

The Sheriff : 

Uh ... No, Ma'am. Once I 

heard y'all was interested 

I figured we'd best leave it to 

The Experts. (Scully smiles broadly) 

Now, uh ... that can't be 

what it looks like, right?

MULDER: 

That depends on what you think 

it looks like, Sheriff Hartwell. 

Vampires have always been with Us, 

in ancient myths and stories 

passed down from early Man. 

(Scully stands behind Mulder, smiling, eyes wide, 

rocks from side to side, goofing around) 

From the Babylonian Ekimu 

to the Chinese Kuang-Shi 

to Motetz Dam of the 

Hebrews, the Mormo 

of ancient Greece and Rome* 

to the more familiar Nosferatu 

of Transylvania.

The Sheriff :

Mormo.* Yeah.

SCULLY: 

In short, Sheriff, no. This can't be what it looks like. 

I think what we're dealing with here is 

simply a case of some lunatic. (She chuckles) 

Who, uh, has watched too many Bela Lugosi movies. 

He wishes that he could transfigure himself

 into a creature of the night.

The Sheriff :

Yeah. Okay. Uh ... what she said, 

that's what I'm thinking, 

and, uh ... Yeah. 

(Scully loves being right)

MULDER: 

Still, that leaves us in something of a quandary 

because there are as many different 

kinds of vampires as there are 

cultures that fear them. 

(Scully yawns and covers her mouth) 

Some don't even subsist on blood. 

The Bulgarian Ubour, for example, 

eats only manure.

SCULLY: (sarcastically) 

Thank you.

MULDER: 

To The Serbs, a prime indicator 

of vampirism is red hair. 

(raises his hand to Scully's head) 

Some vampires are thought 

to be eternal. 

Others are thought to have 

a Life-span of only 40 days. 

(Scully's pointing at her watch, 

rolling her eyes, carrying on.) 

Sunlight kills certain vampires 

while others come and go 

as they please, Day or night.

(Scully sighs deeply from boredom).

SCULLY: 

If There's A Point, Mulder, 

please feel free to come to it.

MULDER: 

My Point is that We Don't know 

exactly what we're looking for. 

What kind of vampire, or if you prefer, 

what kind of vampire this killer 

wishes himself to be.

(Mulder notices the untied shoes on the corpse 

and stands with his head between his feet)

SCENE 19 

TODAY X FILES OFFICE

SCULLY: 

Now, why is it so important 

that his shoes were untied?

MULDER: 

I'm getting to it.

CEMETERY - DAY

MULDER VOICE OVER: 

So, while You stayed behind to do The Autopsy, 

The Sheriff drove me to the town cemetery.

(Hartwell opens the gate and they walk through. 

This cemetery is certainly not off the beaten path, 

the creepier the better)

The Sheriff :

Agent Mulder, you mind me 

asking you why we're out here?

MULDER: 

Historically, cemeteries were thought to be 

a haven for vampires, as are castles, 

catacombs and swamps, 

but unfortunately, you don't 

have any of those.

The Sheriff :

We used to have swamps only 

The EPA made us take to 

calling them ‘wetlands’.

MULDER: 

Yeah. So, we're out here looking 

for any signs of vampiric activity.

The Sheriff :

Which would be like, uh...?

MULDER: 

Broken or shifted tombstones. 

The absence of birds singing.

The Sheriff :

There you go. Cuz I ain't hearing any birds singing. 

Right? Course, it's winter, and We ain't 

got no birds. Is there anything else?

Mulder : 

A faint groaning coming from under the earth. 

The sound of manducation -- of the creature 

eating its own death shroud.

The Sheriff :

Nope. No manuh... ma-ma...

MULDER: 

Manducation.

The Sheriff :

Manducation. No.

MULDER: 

Now, Sheriff, I know my methods 

may seem a little odd to you, but..

The Sheriff :

Hey, look, y'all work for The Federal 

Guv'mint and that's all I need to know. 

I mean, CIA, Secret Service --

-- y'all run the show, so --

MULDER: 

It's just that my gut instinct tells me 

that The Killer will visit this place. 

That it may well hold some fascination -- 

some kind of siren call for him, you know. 

(A horn honks)

RONNIE: 

Howdy, Sheriff.

(The teen delivery boy is in a red car on the street, a Gremlin)

The Sheriff :

Oh, hey, Ronnie. How's it going?

RONNIE: 

Can't complain.

The Sheriff : 

Well, all right, then. 

(Ronnie drives off)

MULDER: 

Maybe after nightfall, Sheriff, 

but he'll come. Oh, he'll come.

(we watch the car drive off down the road)

SCENE 20 

CEMETERY - NIGHT

(Mulder looking around with his flashlight)

MULDER VOICE OVER: 

So, we staked out the cemetery.

SCENE 21 

TODAY X FILES OFFICE

SCULLY: 

Mulder, shoelaces?

MULDER: 

Hmm?

SCULLY: 

On The Corpse. You were going to tell me 

what was Meaningful about 

finding untied shoelaces.

MULDER: 

I'm getting to it.

SCENE 22 

CEMETERY - NIGHT

(Mulder is spreading sunflower seeds around 

the cemetery, he gets into Sheriff's car)

MULDER: 

Sunflower seed? 

(He accidentally drops some) Sorry.

The Sheriff :

No, thanks. Do you mind ... (he picks up a seed that fell 

from Mulder's bag and tosses it) Do you mind 

me asking you what you were ...

MULDER: 

Historically, certain types of seeds 

were thought to fascinate vampires. 

Chiefly oats and millet, but you 

make-do with what you have —

Remember when I said before 

that we didn't know what type of 

vampire we were looking for?

The Sheriff : 

Yeah.

MULDER: 

Well, oddly enough, there seems 

to be one obscure fact which 

in all the stories told 

by the different cultures 

is exactly the same, and that's 

that vampires are really, 

really obsessive-compulsive. 

Yeah, you toss a handful of seeds 

at one, no matter what he's doing 

he's got to stop and pick it up. 

If he sees a knotted rope, 

he's got to untie it. 

It's in His Nature. 

In fact, that's why,

I'm guessing that our victim's 

shoelaces were untied.

The Sheriff : 

Yeah, obsessive... Like Rain Man. (Mulder nods) 

It's like when that old boy dropped them matchsticks, 

he had to pick them all up. 

Same thing, right?

MULDER: 

Well, he didn't actually 

pick them up. 

He counted them.

The Sheriff : 

Oh, yeah. 247. 

Right off the top of your head.

MULDER: 

Well, if he had picked them up,

he would have been 

The Sheriff :

Yeah. I'll tell you what. 

I know I'm in Law-enforcement, 

but I'd like to take him 

to Vegas myself. 

Am I right?

MULDER: 

Well, that would be illegal, right?

The Sheriff :

He's like a little calculator.

MULDER: 

Yeah.

EndNotes :

* : “Mormu. Yeah.” Is The Sherrif answering The Question implicit in Mulder’s colloray, qualifying his response to The Sherriff own initial Question…? 

This Line of Enquiry, more fully-explored by way 

of being Gamed-out via Free-Play would, 

therefore, run as follows :

My Training is Secret

Ghostbusters 2: Louis vs Slimer deleted scene Completed

So What? It's a Free Country.

The sun is shining brightly and Liberty 

is back on her pedestal where she belongs. 

The Mayor and a host of officials are commemorating her return. 

The Ghostbusters, Dana, Janine and 

Louis are there as honoured guests. 

The Mayor comes out with a giant gold key, 

symbolic of The Key to the City.

Notice Janosz Poha and Jack Hardemeyer 

standing to the left of the podium.

The Mayor shakes hands with Peter, then hands the key over to him. Peter accepts it, then hands it down to the other members of the team.

VENKMAN

(looking up at the statue)

Pretty impressive, huh?

SPENGLER

(musing)

It's probably the first thing my grandparents 

saw when they came to this country.

VENKMAN

From where -- Neptune?

SPENGLER

They came from Ostrov in Eastern Poland.

VENKMAN

Ostrov? I've been there. Good party town.

STANTZ

(in a similarly reflective mood)

My great-grandparents were Swiss. 

I still have the pictures they took of 

The Statue from the boat when they arrived.

VENKMAN

Oh, right, you told me that. 

They came to America seeking other 

kinds of cheese, as I recall. 

How about you, Winston?

WINSTON

My people weren't taking any pictures from those slave ships, 

man. And there wasn't any Statue in Charleston Harbor 

to welcome them, either. 

What are you, Dana?

VENKMAN

Miss Blue Blood? Her family's 

been here since the year 12.

DANA

That's not true. It was 1620.

VENKMAN

Same difference.

STANTZ

What's your story, Pete?

VENKMAN

Me? I'm a little of everything. Some Irish, 

some German, some French, Dutch -- 

the women in my family slept around.

And that's what made this country great.

DANA

That's a terrible thing to say.

VENKMAN

So what? It's a free country.

(looking up at the statue)

Thanks, Lib.

They all look up at the Statue.

EXT. STATUE OF LIBERTY - HEAD OF STATUE - DAY

Slimer flies out one of the observation windows, THEME MUSIC KICKS IN and the CAMERA PULLS UP and AWAY FROM the island TO a HIGH SHOT of the Statue, lower Manhattan and the shining sea beyond.

I LIKE That Shirt, Friend!

Stantz, Spengler and Winston come downstairs wearing new Ghostbuster uniforms. The uniforms are ridiculously overdone and over-decorated with military berets topping off the whole ensemble. Venkman notes the unhappy looks on their faces.

VENKMAN

(trying to bluff his way through)

Incredible! This is a very good look.

WINSTON

We look like the Bronxville High School Marching Band.

VENKMAN

Will you just trust me on this? It's all part of the new plan -- higher visibility, lower overhead, deeper market penetration, bigger profits. Just wait until we open the boutique.

STANTZ

What boutique?

VENKMAN

The Ghostbusters Gift Boutique. It's a natural. I've been working on it all day.

(he reads from a list)

Ghostbuster tee-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, visors, beach towels, mugs, calendars, stationery, balloons, stickers, Frisbees, paperweights, souvenirs, tote bags, party supplies, motor oil, toys, video games.

(suddenly inspired)

Ooh, I'm grossing myself out -- Ghostbusters breakfast cereal.

WINSTON

Breakfast cereal.

VENKMAN

(thinks better of it)

Okay, forget the cereal. But this could be a gold mine. 

We get this junk cheap from Taiwan or Korea and all we have to do is stick our logo on it. We'll be laughing.

SPENGLER

Our primary concern should be the continued integrity of the biosphere. It's a responsibility shared by all conscious beings.

VENKMAN

Isn't that what I just said?

STANTZ

(to Venkman)

Look, Venkman. We don't have time for this. We've got customers waiting-- paying customers. You can wear pink huggies and go-go boots if you want. We're sticking with the old coveralls.

They go upstairs to change uniforms. Venkman follows them to the foot of the stairs.