"I know what it comes with, but it's not what I want."

I thought twice about posting this clip. Everyone has seen it -- why bother? Then I thought, Just because the interweb has convinced us that everything is at our fingertips, most of us never get past the first knuckle -- hence all that hand-wringing, all that auto-aggression. The world is full of know-it-alls who don't know anything -- and they know it!

Jack Nicholson's Bobby Dupea is the opposite -- a self-imposed know-nothing who knows more than he can handle. Here is Nicholson 22 years later, as Colonel Nathan R. Jessop, still labouring under the weight of what he knows: