Daily Dialogue — May 28, 2019

Walter Sobchak: You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.
The Dude: Yeah, but Walter…
Walter Sobchak: Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o’clock this afternoon… with nail polish. These fucking amateurs…

— The Big Lebowski (1998), written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Diner. Today’s suggestion by @PaulKhosh.

Trivia: The diner in which Walter and The Dude have a cup of coffee during the toe scene is the same diner from the later scenes of American History X (1998). It is located at Wilshire and Fairfax in Los Angeles, California. It’s called Johnie’s Coffee Shop and has long been closed. It’s only used for filming.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Enjoying coffee in an L.A. diner seems like an entirely appropriate setting for a Coen brothers’ movie to have character discussing toes, severed or otherwise.