“Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find:
- One forty-five caliber automatic
- Two boxes of ammunition
- Four days’ concentrated emergency rations
- One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine,
vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
- One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible
- One hundred dollars in rubles
- One hundred dollars in gold
- Nine packs of chewing gum
- One issue of prophylactics
- Three lipsticks
- Three pair of nylon stockings.
Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.”
I could never figure out how the Russian phrase book would be helpful in Vegas, especially then...the other stuff...maybe!
You should maybe go with me to Las Vegas in the wintertime when the wind is strong and the dust is harsh.
I would take you to good places where girls speak good Russian... and get you there cheap... you can ride in my cab...
Dude... The only thing I ask when I hit a town is who owns it... I'll figure out the culture and the language.
Or which one I want to deal with.
Hell, my grandchildren are Cambodian. Try learning a tonal language after you go deef.
/johnny
It is a little-known piece of trivia that the dialogue you quote from Slim Pickens in Stangelove originally was: “Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with all that stuff.” Then the Kennedy assassination happened about the time the film was to be released, and they dubbed “Vegas” over Slim Pickens’ original “Dallas,” so as not to offend the populace.
If you watch the film when he says this, you can see that his lips are saying “Dallas”, but the sound was overdubbed to “Vegas”.
Under Turd-owe-with-a-tan (Obamugabe), I believe that there would be substitutions in the survival kit including:
“- One miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible” would be replaced with:
“- One miniature combination “Thoughts of Chairman Mao”, “Dreams of My Father”, and the holey quran”
The other change will be the substitution of:
“- One hundred dollars in rubles” and “- One hundred dollars in gold” for:
“- Five hundred dollars in gold foil wrapped chocolates”