Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140725003808/@comment-14909251-20140726051951

MetallicArcher wrote: Ok, people keep saying Ruby's speech about her dream of the best day ever had a reference to some US politician and here I am wondering what kind of time measuring unit is a "score". It isn't a measurement of time, but a number, the number 20 to be specific. Her line is taken from the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. The speech started with the line "four score and seven years ago", which was the number of years it had been since the Declaration of Independence. Ruby promptly follows with "I had a dream", a reference to Martin Luther KIng Junior's "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial following the March on Washington during the American Civil Rights Movement, and she finished off the politics references by pulling the Nixon peace signs and saying "I am not a crook" when responding to the allegation from Weiss about the binder she was using. Given that Nixon said the same line when asked about Watergate, it is strongly implied that Ruby did steal Weiss' binder.