The Dish (2000)
Tom Long: Glenn Latham
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Quotes
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Glenn Latham : Everything's fine.
Al Burnett : Except we lost Apollo 11!
Glenn Latham : Oh, except for that.
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Cliff Buxton : My wife said something. She said, "Failure is never quite so frightening as regret".
Glenn Latham : Oh, that's good advice.
Cliff Buxton : Pretty good.
Glenn Latham : I wish somebody'd tell me that.
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Glenn Latham : Computer. 20 seconds it does what it used to take me 5 hours on a slide rule.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : And a basketball.
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Al Burnett : Are you telling me that NASA's prime receiving station has absolutely no idea where Apollo 11 is?
Glenn Latham : Yeah - it's on its way to the moon.
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Al Burnett : Not everyone at NASA is a hotshot college genius. The guy I most admire is from a one-horse town in Ohio.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : And what's he do?
Al Burnett : Tomorrow he's gonna walk on the moon.
Glenn Latham : ...Who's the guy?
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Cliff Buxton : Glenn, come here.
Glenn Latham : What?
Al Burnett : Every coordinate in this book has been changed.
Glenn Latham : Yeah... I changed them.
Al Burnett : You what?
Glenn Latham : I changed them.
Al Burnett : Why?
Glenn Latham : Because they were wrong.
Al Burnett : Why were they wrong?
Glenn Latham : Dunno.
Cliff Buxton : No, what about them was wrong?
Glenn Latham : Oh! Well, the figures NASA gave us were for the northern hemisphere... and we're in the southern hemisphere? I can change them back but then you'd be pointing in the wrong d...
Cliff Buxton : Glenn, it might be a good idea for you to tell us these things.
Glenn Latham : Oh, sure, I just didn't wanna worry you... Cuppa tea, Al?
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[explaining to Janine how the prime receiving stations work]
Glenn Latham : Imagine the earth as a basketball.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : This'll be good.
Glenn Latham : And on top of the basketball there's...
[to Mitch and Cliff]
Glenn Latham : What's the name of the thing you put the pump into?
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : A hole.
Glenn Latham : Yeah but it's got a name.
[Mitch shrugs his shoulders]
Glenn Latham : The valve! Imagine on top there's a valve, and on the bottom there's another valve and...
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : You know, basketballs only have one valve, Glenn.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Well, what's something that has two valves?
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Tuba?
Glenn Latham : It's gotta be round.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Tamborine?
Glenn Latham : That doesn't have valves!
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Coconut!
Cliff Buxton : Mitch!
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Cliff Buxton : Do you know what I thought when this first came up?
Glenn Latham : What, your pipe?
Cliff Buxton : No. The moon mission.
Glenn Latham : You beauty?
Cliff Buxton : I thought, imagine stuffing that up. Isn't that odd?
Glenn Latham : What?
Cliff Buxton : Well, that I was more scared than excited.
Glenn Latham : I don't think that's odd. I feel like that all the time.
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Al Burnett : I stand corrected.
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : No, you're WRONG!
Al Burnett : Do we have a problem?
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : Yeah! You treat us like a pack of galahs!
Glenn Latham : That's a type of parrot.
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Cliff Buxton : We stuffed?
Glenn Latham : Yep. We're stuffed.
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Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : You treat us like a pack of galahs!
Glenn Latham : [Al is nonplussed] That's a kind of parrot.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Just because I don't wear a tie and I don't spend all day with my head buried in a manual, that doesn't mean I'm a drongo!
Glenn Latham : That's a hopeless horse.
Al Burnett : Yeah, I get the idea, Glenn.