Ross "Mitch" Mitchell Quotes in The Dish (2000)

Al Burnett: The Ambassador's coming. Space nut. Knows everything about Apollo 11.

Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: Does he know where it is?

Reporter: No offence, but NASA spends fifteen years, hundreds of millions of dollars so that we can watch man walk on the moon and in the end it falls to you blokes! I mean, how do you feel about that?

Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: A lot better before you opened your trap!

Al Burnett: I stand corrected.

Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: No, you're WRONG!

Al Burnett: Do we have a problem?

Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: Yeah! You treat us like a pack of galahs!

Glenn Latham: That's a type of parrot.

Rudi Kellerman: What's with the alarm?

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Lets us know it's windy.

Rudi Kellerman: Oh, well I could'a told you that, it's blowin' a bloody gale out there!

[explaining to Janine how the prime receiving stations work]

Glenn Latham: Imagine the earth as a basketball.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: This'll be good.

Glenn Latham: And on top of the basketball there's...

[to Mitch and Cliff]

Glenn Latham: What's the name of the thing you put the pump into?

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: A hole.

Glenn Latham: Yeah but it's got a name.

[Mitch shrugs his shoulders]

Glenn Latham: The valve! Imagine on top there's a valve, and on the bottom there's another valve and...

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: You know, basketballs only have one valve, Glenn.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Well, what's something that has two valves?

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Tuba?

Glenn Latham: It's gotta be round.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Tamborine?

Glenn Latham: That doesn't have valves!

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Coconut!

Cliff Buxton: Mitch!

Glenn Latham: Computer. 20 seconds it does what it used to take me 5 hours on a slide rule.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: And a basketball.