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Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline  Paths of Glory (1957)
Corporal Paris: See that cockroach? Tomorrow morning, we'll be dead and it'll be alive. It'll have more contact with my wife and child than I will. I'll be nothing, and it'll be alive. [Ferol smashes the roach]
Private Ferol: Now you got the edge on him. Attachment 181185 |
That's brilliant. It's probably better without the second punch line as it makes clear the horrors of war where Ferol's line makes you laugh.