Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here.
“Yucca Flats. Why?”*
“I’m sure it does surprise you. It surprises everybody. But it wouldn’t surprise ole Bobby Oppenheimer.”
“It’s just like a horse, ceptin’ it don’t eat apples. Not without taking your whole damn arm off at the same time, leastwise.”
“Cause the seagulls ate all the little ones, that’s why.”
“Well, I think these little critters are going to catch on big time. Specially for polo.”
“Out here son, a man rides what he got, not what he wants. This ain’t the movies, and I ain’t John Wayne.”
“You’ll see why when we get to Big Creek.”
“Not really Antediluvian. I’d say Carboniferous.”
“Grasshopper dressage? I gotta say, it’s still in its infancy. But that’s going to change.”
“Stubborn? Sure, they’re stubborn. But not, you know, ant stubborn.”
*Site of nuclear testing back in the day.