Operation Dumbo Drop

Movie Operation Dumbo Drop
Year 1995
David Poole: Gilman, may I remind you that I have friends who have absolutely no regard for the sanctity of human life? I pick up the phone, I have your head in a bag on my desk tomorrow morning.
David Poole: Deal. And, uh, Gilman? I'd still have somebody taste your food.
Capt. T.C. Doyle: You slept with the wife of General "Kill-'em-all-and-let-God-sort-them-out" Richardson?
David Poole: I thought it was his daughter.
Capt. T.C. Doyle: Oh yeah, he would've been fine with that.
Capt. T.C. Doyle: Does anybody else here know how to work an elephant?
Harvey (H.A.) Ashford: I was in love with a fat woman once, but she never listened to me.
Capt. T.C. Doyle: Poole? Can you get me some more of that water buffalo tranquilizer?
Capt. T.C. Doyle: Really enjoyed that, didn't you Doyle? Linh was right, you ARE weird.
Harvey (H.A.) Ashford: [Bo-Tat has vomitted on the boat deck.] My kids are gonna ask me: "Daddy, what's the worst thing you saw in the war?" After this, there's no contest!
Y B'ham: [About Linh] Boy have no family. All killed.
Capt. T.C. Doyle: You mean in the war?
Y B'ham: No, hit by falling star..... Yes, in war.
[Goddard is singing along to a record of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" - badly.]
Capt. Sam Cahill: Is it my ears, or has your singing actually gotten worse?
Goddard: Must be your ears, it was already as bad as it could be!
[On Goddard]
Capt. Sam Cahill: He gave us the best intelligence on the V.C.'s location that we ever got.
Goddard: Well, what can I say? I love America.
[He motions to a framed photo of Lyndon Johnson on his dashboard. Cahill picks it up and flips it over, showing a photo of Ho Chi Minh.]
Capt. Sam Cahill: He gave the V.C. their best intelligence on our location, too.
[Cahill laughs.]
Goddard: What can I say? I love everybody.
David Poole: You know something? This country's really beautiful.
Sp5 Lawrence Farley: Yeah. Kind of reminds me of home.
David Poole: [suddenly acid] Oh, really? How exactly does this remind you of home?
Sp5 Lawrence Farley: Well...
David Poole: No, Farley, tell me, what is it? The spirit-crushing humidity? The disease-bearing insects? Or is it that special feeling that comes from the knowledge that at any given moment, a sniper's bullet could come spiralling towards your forehead?
Capt. T.C. Doyle: Poole, where are you going?
David Poole: Saigon!
Capt. T.C. Doyle: Get back here!
Capt. Sam Cahill: Poole, do you want me to call General Richardson?
David Poole: [turns around] Yeah, Cahill! Yeah, I do! Call General Richardson!I'll get him on the phone for you right now! Because I am sick and tired...
[He fumbles with his radio set, then just drops it.]
David Poole: That's it! I've had it! I was on a plane that almost crashed, I came this close to being killed by an angry mob, and now look at my uniform! It's covered in elephant crap! So you really think I give a damn whether or not you call General Richardson, and tell him I slept with his wife, huh?




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