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Anybody watched "Happy Feet"?

There's a scene where Mumble (the prepubescent protagonist Emperor penguin) has questions about "aliens." He carries a pebble (as an offering) and climbs up a mountain to seek answers from Lovelace (the spiritual prophet of the Rockhopper penguins).

Here's an outtake of this (but modified for purposes of asking the all important questions about immunizations):

MUMBLE (drops a pebble on the feet of Lovelace): What is the most unique entry when we put in all that information about immunization?

LOVELACE: The great spirit tells me it's THE LOT NUMBER. With the Lot Number, you have identified the immunization, amount administered, expiration date, VIS, and manufacturer.

MUMBLE: What would be the easiest way to reduce the entries we must make for each and every immunization?

LOVELACE: That's easy. It's THE LOT NUMBER.

MUMBLE: Oh, I see. When I enter the Lot Number for the first time, I can be prompted to put in the Manufacturer, expiration date, VIS and dosage. Then, the next time you enter the lot number, BAMM. Everything else comes out prepopulated.
Maybe you can put a counter on how many time a lot number is used. And when you used your very last dose of the very last bottle of a lot number, you can RETIRE THE NUMBER. By RETIRING THE NUMBER, it won't appear on our choices to choose from.
So, why do all the lot numbers from the beginning of Creation appear on Amazingcharts? Why do we have to hunt and peck through the lot numbers of expired vaccinations? Wouldn't it be easier to have only lot numbers of vaccines in our refrigerator appear on the immunization screen?
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to make a monthly report of all the vaccine (according to their lot number)that we can send to our public health centers each month to perform the accounting functions? Wouldn't it be nice to have reports like this for flu vaccination so we know we're getting 10 doses per bottle rather than squeezing out 8.5 doses and losing money for giving flu shots? Wouldn't a system like this be better than using our and toes to count our inventory?

LOVELACE: And who ARE you? There isn't enough pebbles on the island to answer all those questions you bring up. Next!!

Disclaimer: It 2:24am and I'm a bit punchy. My kids watch Happy Feet incessantly. In no way am I trying to poke fun at any breed of penguins, Antartica denizens, or AC users. The portrayal of the characters do not represent anyone in general (or specific) alive or deceased. Any such resemblence is purely coincidental and imagined. No feelings were hurt during the production of this dialog.