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Colonel Dax: Let me get this straight, sir. You're offering me General Mireau's command?
General Broulard: Come, come, Colonel Dax. Don't overdo the surprise.You've been after the job from the start. We all know that, my boy.
Colonel Dax: I may be many things, sir, but I am not your boy.
General Broulard: Well, I certainly didn't mean to imply any biological relationship.
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General Broulard: Colonel Dax, I'm going to have ten men from each company in your regiment tried under penalty of death for cowardice.
Colonel Dax: Penalty of death? - For cowardice!
General Broulard: They've skim milk in their veins instead of blood.
Colonel Dax: It's the reddest milk I've ever seen. My trenches are soaked with it!
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