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 Please help me out! Sometime in the 1990s I became enamored of a quote, after Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty speaking about words meaning precisely what he chooses them to mean. Some #movie #villain (I think) said "Words mean what I PAY them to mean". Perhaps the #Riddler in a #Batman movie? Brain no work! I can't remember! Now I want to say it in a post and I really want a precise link/cite for the amusement value. Please help?  Boosts appreciated.

#Writing #Research #90s #HumptyDumpty #1990s 
 Although it's not for any rational reason, I am so eager to restore this lost memory that I actually sent a Signal message to the woman I spent most of the 90s with. Most of our media consumption was in common in those days, and I watched a lot of things with her kid that I otherwise wouldn't have seen.  She may well remember what I do not.