Mike Raiford wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
> 
>> My mental movie quote database is definitely not lossy!
> 
> Oh, but it is, it is. You may remember pieces of this film, but no doubt 
> you could not recall every frame in exacting detail for the entire 
> length of the feature.

Well, of course. I was just being facetious really, lossy in the sense 
that I haven't lost it in the sense that I've still got it!

> Hence it is in fact lossy. Though you my correlate some of the dialog of 
> the film with the film, and may be able to recall associated dialog, 
> it's guaranteed not to be exactly the same as it was.

How true - unless the wording is particularly distinctive, I'm always 
getting the sense of the quote rather than the actual script. Although I 
partly blame this on misinformed individuals propagating incorrect 
quotes...

> (Unless the hard drive crashes ... )

Yes, I hope you get that fixed without too much hassle.

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