Make Mine Mike

Office gal: Michael, will you help out the incompetent office people with the things they’re too incompetent to do themselves?

Michael: *grumble*

OG: (mock sweetness) Thank you, Precious. (off Michael’s look) What? Why are you looking at me like that?

Michael: “Precious”?

OG: What’s wrong with “Precious”?

Michael: Among countless other things… it’s the name of the little wimpy dog that belonged to that guy in “Silence of the Lambs”.

OG: Which guy?

Michael: Not Hannibal Lecter. The killer they were after -- Buffalo Bill. You know: “It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it’s told.”

OG: “Silence of the Lambs”… wasn’t that the one with, “Luke, I am your father”? (off Michael’s look) What? Why are you looking at me like that?

Michael: That’s “Empire Strikes Back”. The second Star Wars movie.

OG: Ohhh, right. How did I mix that up?

Michael: Did you mean, “Luke, I am your fava beans and a nice chianti?”

OG: No, no, no... But you could see why I mix them up, right?

Michael: Sure, their titles are completely different, one’s sci-fi, the other’s a thriller, they came out a decade apart and have no actors in common. I could see making that mistake.

OG: Thank you, Precious.

Michael: *grumble*