Ryan Howard
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- Ryan: What I really want -- honestly Michael – is for you to know it so you can communicate it to the people here, to your clients, to whomever.
- Michael: Oh ok…
- Ryan: What?
- Michael: It’s whoever, not whomever…
- Ryan: No it’s whomever…
- Michael: No…whomever is never actually right.
- Jim:Well, sometimes it’s right.
- Creed: Michael is right. It’s a made-up word used to trick students.
- Andy: No. Actually, whomever is the formal version of the word.
- Oscar: Obviously it’s a real word, but I don’t know when to use it correctly.
- Michael: Not a native speaker.
- Kevin: I know what’s right, but I’m not gonna say because you’re all jerks who didn’t come see my band last night.
- Ryan: Do you really know which one is correct?
- Kevin: I don’t know.
- Pam: It’s whom when it’s the object of the sentence and who when it’s the subject.
- Phyllis: That sounds right.
- Michael: Well it sounds right but is it?
- Stanley: How did Ryan use it, as an object?
- Ryan: As an object…
- Kelly: Ryan used me as an object.
- Stanley: Is he right about that?
- Pam: How did he use it again?
- Michael: It was…Ryan wanted Michael, the subject, to uh explain the computer system, the object, to whomever, meaning us, the indirect object…which is the correct usage of the word.
- Michael: No one asked you anything ever so whomever’s name is Toby why don’t you take a letter opener and stick it into your skull.
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- Ryan: Convergence. Viral marketing. We’re going guerilla. We’re taking it to the street while keeping an eye on the street (wall street). I don’t want to reinvent the wheel here. In other words, it is what it is. Buying paper just became fun.
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- Michael: In the last year we have lost seven clients to the big chains. These gift baskets are a ticket back into their lives. We’re going to show up at these businesses unannounced and we are going to win them back.
- Ryan: With gift baskets.
- Michael: With peanut brittle. With macadamia nut cookies. With chocolate turtles. With raspberry jam and a little bit of fat and salt. Because you know what? That’s what people like.
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- Ryan: Michael, everybody…let me say something. I know I used to be a temp here. But now everything is different. I’d like your respect. I am your boss now. You’re going to have to treat me the same way you treated Jan.
- Michael: Oh wow, that’s a little kinky! I don’t swing that way…
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- Michael: So I need a little treat for the gang, something to win their affections back.
- Ryan: Back? Why is that Michael?
- Michael: Well, I ran down Meredith in my car.
- Ryan: Oh no. Did you do this on purpose?
- Michael: No, I was being negligent. But she’s in the hospital. She’s fine, she’s recovering nicely. Tiny little crack in her pelvis. But she will be up and…
- Ryan: Did this happen on company property?
- Michael: Yes. It was on company property with company property. So, double jeopardy. We are fine.
- Ryan: I don’t think you understand how jeopardy works.
- Michael: Oh. Right, I’m sorry. What is “we’re fine”?
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- Ryan: Last year Creed asked me how to setup a blog. Wanting to protect the world from being exposed to Creed’s brain I opened up a Word document on his computer and put an address at the top. I’ve read some of it. Even for the internet it’s pretty shocking.
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- Michael: [waiting outside] Ok, this is it. Ryan is doing my intro right now.
- Ryan: [addressing to his b-school class] Dunder Mifflin can’t compete with the modern chains and management is unwilling or unable to adapt. Their customers are dying off…
- Michael: I can’t hear what he’s saying, but he looks like he’s really into it.
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- Michael: Will they throw their hats you think?
- Ryan: What?
- Michael: A lot of times at a school or a naval academy, after a rousing speech the crowd will throw their hats into the air.
- Ryan: You understand nobody’s graduating…
- Michael: Yeah, I know, I know. I’m just saying that if they did throw their hats I’d have a great line for them. “May your hats fly as high as your dreams”.
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- Ryan: If you bring your boss to class, it automatically bumps you up a full letter grade. So…I’d be stupid not to do it…right?
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- Michael: Today is a special day because I am being honored as a visiting professor special lecturer emeritus…how did you put it?
- Ryan: You will be a guest speaker…
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- Michael: [at his George Foreman grill] Look at that. Nothing like grilling in the great outdoors.
- Ryan: Is this the same grill you grilled your foot on?
- Michael: No…yes…but I got all the foot off of it.
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- Ryan: Dwight will be missed. Not by me so much…but he will be missed.
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- Ryan: I miss the days when there was only one party I didn’t want to go to.
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Ryan inadvertently stares at Anna while she’s using a breast pump
- Anna: Take a picture, it’ll last longer.
- Ryan: I’m sorry, it’s just…it’s a little distracting…
- Creed: Ditto that my brother.
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- Ryan: It makes perfect sense that it would happen today because I just receved this in the mail, a thousand business cards with this address and phone number.