Film-makers have been trying to replicate this type of caper-comedy-romance for years, and flubbing it.
The administrator in the clip seems confused and skeptical, like an actress flubbing her lines, while the real-life Vassar kids caught on camera look mildly inconvenienced rather than incensed.
But as one often does after flubbing a pregnant moment, I kept going over the scene in my mind, trying to formulate an answer worthy of the question and the questioner, something that convinced him I wasn't a fool".
The filmmakers, I think, got in over their heads and couldn't decide whether they were making an action thriller or a drama of conscience; they wound up flubbing both.
You survive two years of graduate classes, the General Comprehensive Test (flubbing the question on Tobias Smollett), marriage to a Faulkner guy, and a gruelling four-hundred-book Special Field Exam on "The Electra Complex in Postwar American Prose," a subject that you begin to hate long before your committee can lob the first question.
In 1999, Chuck Knoblauch, the Yankees' second baseman, began flubbing routine plays to first base, and in one game threw a ball so far off target that it hit the mother of the ESPN sportscaster Keith Olbermann, in the stands.
Except he kept flubbing his lines.
Even Henrik Lundqvist (28 saves) had a problematic night, flubbing Evander Kane's shot halfway through the third period, 20 seconds after Taylor Pyatt had brought the Rangers within 3-2.
"Naw, it's O.K., we got lots of tape, man," Mr. Kristofferson chuckles after twice flubbing one tune.
They began to nervously overpass, declining to shoot, flubbing scoring chances.
She angered Republican activists in Iowa last month by skipping a scheduled in-person speech because of a vote in Congress, and then flubbing a video-over-Internet speech to the activists that was plagued with technical troubles.
