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Dummy may refer to:

• Military dummy:
  • dummy round—a cartridge that is inert, i.e. contains neither bullet nor gunpowder
  • decoy—fake military equipment intended to deceive the enemy
• Crash test dummy, a full-scale replica of a human being, weighted and articulated to simulate the behavior of a human body in an accident
• Fake, a thing or person that is fraudulent or counterfeit in nature
• Dummy, a term in British English and Australia for an artificial nipple given to an infant or other young child to suck upon, also known as a pacifier
• Steam dummy, or dummy engine, was a steam engine made to resemble a railroad passenger coach
• Mannequin, model of the human body used for a variety of purposes
• Ventriloquist's dummy
• Forgery
• Dummy purchaser, a type of agent

In language and literature:

• Dummy pronoun, formally expletive pronoun or pleonastic pronoun, a type of pronoun used in non-pro-drop languages such as English
• For Dummies, series of instructional books

In sports:

• In the card game of contract bridge, the partner of the player who wins the auction
• Dummy reversal, technique in contract bridge to draw the opponents' remaining trump cards
• Dummy Hoy, an American center fielder in Major League Baseball
• Dummy (football), an association football (soccer), rugby league and rugby union ruse
• Dummy pass, in rugby league football
• Muk Yan Jong, a wooden dummy used in Chinese martial arts training

In entertainment:

• Dummy (TV movie), a 1979 TV movie staring LeVar Burton and Paul Sorvino
• Crash Test Dummies, a Canadian folk-rock band formed in the 1990s
• Dummy (artist), a musical artist who goes under the alias of Dummy
• Dummy (album), a 1994 album by Portishead
• Dummy (film), a 2002 drama film/comedy film
• "The Dummy", an episode of The Twilight Zone
• Dummy (comics), a fictional character from the comic book X-Men
• Dummy (Pushing Daisies episode), The second episode of the first season of "Pushing Daisies"
• "Dummy", a 2008 low-budget horror film starring Brian Krause, featuring a Chucky (Child's Play)-style character, a deranged ventriloquist, and his sister.

In programming, mathematics and electronics:

• Skeleton (computer science) or dummy code that's not used in the final product, but left in to avoid creating bugs
• Dummy data, data in a database, computer memory, or other repository used as a placeholder or for testing purposes only
• Free variables and bound variables, also known as dummy variable, such as the parameter x in the function definition f(x) = x² + 1
• Dummy variable (statistics), also known as indicator variable, only taking the values 0 and 1 and used in regression analysis
• Dummy load, a device used to simulate an electrical load, usually for testing purposes
• Dummy file, files used to fit the space in data optical discs

In History

• Dummy, the pseudonym of a man accused of being a witch in 19th century Essex, England.

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From Wikiquote

Dummy is a 2002 film about an aspiring singer in a dysfunctional household who finds her niche in Yiddish music, while her friend tries to make it as a ventriloquist, saddled with a dummy who embodies his inner doubts.

Written and directed by Greg Pritikin.

Fangoria "Fanny" Gurkel

• D'you know our high school reunion's comin' up? Ten years... D'you know how depressing that is? D'you think I don't wanna slash my fucking wrists when I think about that? Goddamn it!

• Steven, you drive like my fucking grandma! Wait... that's actually an insult because my grandma drives better than you do!

• [Being thrown out for throwing a tantrum in a mall.] Fucking suburbanized shit!

Others

• Steven Schoichet: I look both ways when I cross the street.

• Heidi Schoichet: [seeing Steven in his underwear, with his dummy dressed as a child] Steven? Gross! You look like a child molester.

Dialogue

Heidi Schoichet: Because every klezmer band in town is booked and I desperately need a band. But if I hire you, you have to be willing to "hora". Is that a problem?

Fangoria "Fanny" Gurkel: Oh man, at this point, I'd fuck anyone.

Heidi Schoichet: What're you apologizing to her? She's an unwed mother.

Fern Schoichet: Better an unwed mother than just plain unwed.

Fangoria "Fanny" Gurkel: I bought a gift for you.

Steven Schoichet: Oh, no.

Fangoria "Fanny" Gurkel: Actually, I lifted it from Borders. But it's perfect for your date. It's classical music.

Steven Schoichet: Oh, thanks!

Fangoria "Fanny" Gurkel: Yeah, when you get Lorena alone, put this on. Classical music makes women horny. Just trust me on this one.

Steven Schoichet: Thanks. "Best of John Philip Sousa".

Fangoria "Fanny" Gurkel: Yeah. Chicks dig it.

Fangoria "Fanny" Gurkel: You can fuck me if I'm wrong!

Steven Schoichet: No. That's okay.

Heidi Schoichet: [about Michael going in jail] Serves him right! I hope you rot in there, fucking loser!

Fern Schoichet: Heidi! That loser was almost your husband!

Heidi Schoichet: Why can't you get it into your head, he's a psychopath?

Fern Schoichet: I'm sure he is. But he's also a very succesful accountant.

Taglines

• The story of a dummy and his man.

• Sometimes you need a little help finding yourself.

• A comedy about finding your voice before you lose your mind.

• Some people can say a lot without moving their lips.

Cast

• Adrian Brody - Steven Schoichet
• Milla Jovovich - Fangoria "Fannie" Gurkel
• Illeana Douglas - Heidi Schoichet
• Vera Farmiga - Lorena Fanchetti
• Jessia Walter - Fern Schoichet
• Ron Leibman - Lou Schoichet
• Jared Harris - Michael Foulicker

External links

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Dummy (film)

• Dummy quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Dummy at Rotten Tomatoes