Telephone answering machine:
At the beep please leave your name and number and a brief
justification of the ontological necessity of man's existential
dilemma and we'll get back to you.
-- Helen Childress Reality Bites (1994)
Lelaina (Winona Ryder): [assuming the question has no answer]
"Can you define 'irony'"?
Troy (Ethan Hawke): "It's when the actual meaning is the complete
opposite from the literal meaning."
-- Helen Childress. "Reality Bites" (movie, 1994,
Directed by Ben Stiller).