>-What the fuck was with that milk shake garbage? He could have
>said almost anything else and the scene would have worked. Man
>he could've repeated word for word Ezekiel 25:17 and
>completely copied Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction and it still
>would've made for a better ending than that milk shake line.
>It was so out of place and out of character, you can just tell
>it was some shit that P.T. Anderson read somewhere and just
>had to use.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2008-02-03-blood-milkshake_N.htm

"Anderson concedes that he's puzzled by the phenomenon — particularly because the lines came straight from a transcript he found of the 1924 congressional hearings over the Teapot Dome scandal, in which Sen. Albert Fall was convicted of accepting bribes for oil-drilling rights to public lands in Wyoming and California.

In explaining oil drainage, Fall's "way of describing it was to say 'Sir, if you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and my straw reaches across the room, I'll end up drinking your milkshake,' " Anderson says. "I just took this insane concept and used it."