- Iota: I wrote a swell new riddle. You girls want to hear it? What do you wait for but never want, and follow by stopping?
- Banky: Why, that's fine, Iota.
- Lux: Very good.
- Essex: Well, what do you wait for but never want, and follow by stopping?
- Iota: Oh, I wouldn't know. I only write the questions. There's another fellow that writes the answers.
- Iota: Isn't it a nice party?
- Embassy Guest: There's something wrong with my herring.
- Iota: [Much louder.] ISN'T IT A NICE PARTY?
- Iota: What do you wait for but never want, and follow by stopping?
- Embassy Guest: I would like to know.
- Iota: So would I.
- Essex: This inanium, is it bulletproof?
- Dr. Elcourt: Yes.
- Essex: Fireproof?
- Dr. Elcourt: Yes.
- Essex: Bombproof?
- Dr. Elcourt: Yes.
- General Sportwood: Why, it's everything-proof.
- Essex: What's this?
- [Holds up child-size outfit]
- Dr. Elcourt: It's a chronotard. Galvanically snug so as not to jostle your temporal nodes.
- Banky: [while standing in line waiting for a turn with the "electromesh."] That's the problem with computers. You waste so much time on line.