Rose Quote #600

Quote from Rose in The Auction

Auctioneer: Who'll open the bidding at 5,000?
Dorothy: One of us at a time.
Auctioneer: I have 5,000. Do I have 6,000? Six. Who'll give me 65?
Dorothy: Now, watch how I do this. If you really play it cool, you can scare off the other bidders. Uh, 6500.
Auctioneer: I have 65. Who'll make it seven?
Dorothy: I have seven. Who'll give me 75?
Blanche: My turn. 75.
Auctioneer: I have 75. Who'll give me 8,000?
Rose: Eight thousand.
Auctioneer: I have eight.
Blanche: Rose, what are you doing? You just bid against us.
Rose: Oh, I guess I got carried away with the cool part.
Dorothy: Oh, Rose, I could just smack you.
Auctioneer: I have 85.
Blanche: Oh, give me that thing.
Auctioneer: I have nine. Going once, going twice Unless you ladies would like to pay more. Sold. $9,000.

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Dorothy: Oh, morning, Ma. You sleep OK?
Sophia: No. I got up in the middle of the night and there was a puddle in my bed. Do you know how relieved I was to find out the roof was leaking?

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Sophia: Let me tell you a story. Picture it. Sardinia, 1932.
Blanche: I thought these stories of yours always took place in Sicily.
Sophia: Can't a person go away for the weekend? Anyway, I'm on a tour of the great caper factories of Sardinia. I was a kooky kid going through my piccata period. A wedge of lemon and a smart answer for everything. Anyway, I was I was slicing an onion when suddenly this big basil tree--
Dorothy: Ma, what the hell are you talking about? You're not making any sense.
Sophia: I was hoping the late hour would help to mask that. I don't have a story about taking advantage of a dead guy for money. I got a great story about a Moroccan and a monkey, but that really comes under the heading of lust.

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Blanche: Girls, look, a mime.
Rose: Oh, I just love a mime. It's all on account of my Uncle Gustav. He was a coal mimer.
Blanche: You mean a coal miner.
Rose: No, a coal mimer. You see, he had a bad back and he didn't want to lose his medical benefits, so every morning he'd go down the shaft and pretend to work.