en This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user participates in WikiProject Film.

Born in Illinois, currently in Arizona, and more idle time than I know what to do with since retirement.

I discovered Wikipedia a few years ago, and previously had performed occasional edits and reverts anonymously. Most of my interests are related to areas of The Arts.

The pseudonym is a reference to a character from "The Project Strigas Affair", an episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

• The Bank Dick - "He referred to my proboscis as an adscititious excrescence."
• The Big Sleep (1946 film) - "She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up."
• Bride of Frankenstein - "To a new world of gods and monsters!"
• King Kong (1933 film) - "Holy mackerel! What a show!"
• The Lost Weekend - "It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat?"
• The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) - "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it."
• Sunset Boulevard (1950 film) - "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."
• The Third Man - "In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
• White Heat - "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
• The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) - "I'll get you my pretty... and your little dog too!"