Burns: Then it's agreed. Of course, we can't sell the paintings now,
we'd be caught. How many of you are familiar with the concept of
a "tontine"?
[all stare at him, until Ox raises his hand]
Burns: All right, Ox. Why don't you take us through it?
Ox: Duh, essentially, we all enter into a contract whereby the last
surviving participant becomes the sole possessor of all them
purty pictures.
Burns: Well put, Oxford.
-- His name comes with a dual meaning,
"The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
we'd be caught. How many of you are familiar with the concept of
a "tontine"?
[all stare at him, until Ox raises his hand]
Burns: All right, Ox. Why don't you take us through it?
Ox: Duh, essentially, we all enter into a contract whereby the last
surviving participant becomes the sole possessor of all them
purty pictures.
Burns: Well put, Oxford.
-- His name comes with a dual meaning,
"The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
Related:
- Duh, hey! You said you was dead!
-- Ox carries Burns out on a litter,
"The Curse of the Flying... - Bart: Now we can get the treasure!
Abe: Oh, what's the use.
Burns would still find some way to take it from... - Abe: So, we sealed up the paintings knowing only one of us would ever
look upon them again.
Ox was the first to go; he got a hernia carrying... - Burns: Well, I'm off to get paintings; as they say,
time is "Monets". As you were, Sergeant. [laughs]... - Sgt.: Just leave [the paintings], Burnsie.
Burns:
Leave them for whom, the Germans, the folks who shoot... - Homer: Shut up! Shut up! Stop it! Stop it. I can't take this any
more.
I can't let that brave man out there die alone. I'm... - Burns: So, how did we do?
Smithers: [looking at his stopwatch] It's a new record,
sir. Burns: Outstanding. Well, perhaps all of this... - Mrs.K: Let's start with Milhouse's grandfather.
Van Houten:
Uh, how many of you have a house? [children... - Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness,
feel the slippery finish. Caresses it, experience it...
