Unemployment Office Clerk Quotes in Dear Brigitte (1965)

Unemployment Office Clerk: What kind of work do you do anyway?

Professor Robert Leaf: I'm a poet.

Unemployment Office Clerk: Oh, boy. This morning so far I've had an oyster opener, a balloonist, a circus fat lady who claimed she went on a diet and lost her job, and now I got me a poet.

Professor Robert Leaf: Well, I AM a poet.

[thumbing through a book]

Professor Robert Leaf: I'm in this anthology. My name is in that book.

Unemployment Office Clerk: You see this?

[plopping down a phone book on the counter]

Unemployment Office Clerk: I'm in this book, but that don't make me a telephone.