Hold That Line (1952)

Benny Bartlett: Butch

Quotes 

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Fellas, you are now students of the inferior arts, and you've just passed through portfolios of our cave of learning. Now, first class is Algebra.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones : Algebra? Boy, I always wanted to go dhere. When do we leave?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Not Algers, ALGEBRA!

  Butch : Algebra? What's that?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, it's a concentrated form of mathematics.

  Junior : Well, what's mathematics?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Mathematics? That's arithmatic the hard way.

  Chuck : Why didn't you say so in the first place?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I did say so in the first place.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones : Where were YOU in the first place?

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, I don't wish to sound deleterious, but what's your angle?

  A.J. Billingsley : Angle?

  Chuck : Yeah, yeah, the pitch.

  Junior : The gimmick.

  Butch : The curve.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones, a.k.a. Hurricane Jones : In plain English, what cooks?