Feel like fibbing? You won't fool your fam.

The first exposure we get of the female leads in the movie comes as the sisters are getting ready for their dance number.  When their manager informs them that Wallace and Davis are there to check out their act, purportedly due to a letter from their brother (affectionately known as "freckle-faced Hanes, the dog-faced boy").  Judy attempts another lie to cover up her deception in writing the letter herself.  However Betty, the older sister, can see right through Judy's lies and calls her on it. 

This is the lesson I wish my kids would take away from this scene: You can lie to your family, but you can't fool your family.  I am constantly amazed at the ease, frequency and determination my children employ when lying to me.  But what is more amazing, is that they truly believe they will hoodwink me.  Must be that physiologically-immature brain, because I'm hoping they aren't really that slow of learners.  So - to my children - you may choose to fib to me, but don't expect me to be fooled. 
"Everybody's got a little larceny operating in them."  - Bing Crosby

Plan Your Smorgasbord Carefully (or you'll scar your guests for life)

A favorite scene in the movie has Rosemary Clooney sent against her will to the lodge for a midnight snack. (Honestly?  Forcing people to eat in the middle of the night when they aren't even hungry - can you say budding eating disorder? *chuckle*) Unbeknownst to her, the food is a ruse to get her into a romantic dialogue with Bing Crosby.  Here comes the odd part.  As Bing describes the various sandwiches, he expounds on his theory of nutritional oneirifaction (yes, I made that term up to signify the effect of food on dreams - mainly because making up scientific gobbledygook is so much more fun).  When he talks about the effects of turkey and ham sandwiches - he claims they will cause dreams of a blonde "first-sacker-type" and a brunette "a bit on the scatback side".  What kind of man is he - touting sandwich consumption that causes him to dream about football players?  Truly, the take home message here is that unless you are wanting to be scarred for life by some twisted female-football player dreams, the only safe bet is liverwurst -- where you dream only of a repulsive sandwich meat by-product.  Rosemary really dodges a bullet by not eating much that night.  As for her ending up with Bing Crosby, well she might need some of those midnight sandwiches in her future.  *wink* 

"Whatever are you talking about?"

When Bing Crosby confronts Danny Kaye in the club car about his generous deception in giving away their train tickets, Danny simply replies with a marvelously ambiguous deflective query, "Whatever are you talking about?"  This line comes in very handy in any sticky situation.
So what is your favorite White Christmas line?