Captain : I'm going to be blunt, and make some very cutting remarks.
Marjoribanks : To be sure, sir, that's a contradiction in terms, but then English is a very curious language!
Captain : If you interrupt me once more, Mr....?
Marjoribanks : Marjoribanks, sir.
Captain : You interrupt me once more, mate, and you'll hear some really curious language!
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Captain : Paperwork: not my favourite occupation.
Marjoribanks : Nor mine.
Captain : It's going to be from now on.
Marjoribanks : Charming.
Captain : Health Report, Dock Report, Crew Report, Food Report, Log Report, Sports Report, Diesel Oil and Fuel Report.
Marjoribanks : [singing:]  And a partridge in a pear tree!
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Marjoribanks : Gentlemen, have I your agreement for a policy of unremitting quasi-teutonic organisational protectionism?
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Marjoribanks : I always find the first few days make me feel quite drowsy.
Captain : Shut your port-hole.
Marjoribanks : Begging your pardon, sir, one must have fresh...
Captain : ...and your cake-hole.
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Haines : [Haines, having come to sick bay for a sea-sickness cure, refuses to have an injection in his arm]  I can't bear to see the needle going in, you see.
Doctor : Well, in that case there's only one other place for it to go. Drop 'em!
Haines : I'm not holding them, whatever they are!
Marjoribanks : I gather the Doctor means your trousers.
Haines : Oh. What!
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Doctor : [With a very bad Spanish accent]  Ole, señor!
Marjoribanks : Oh, hello Binn.
Doctor : No, señor. I am the famous Torero from Madrid.
Marjoribanks : You look exactly like our medical officer, Dr Binn.
Doctor : No, Señor. This afternoon I fight 15 bulls.
Marjoribanks : That's an awful lot of bull.
Doctor : Well, my father he breeds the famous fighting bulls, you know. Every year, 50,000 bulls he sends off by ship to South America.
Marjoribanks : 50,000 bulls?
Doctor : Si, si. Also every year, 20,000 more he ships off to France.
Marjoribanks : That's 70,000 bulls.
Doctor : Si, si. One of the biggest bullshippers in the business.
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