(He casts his speech away behind him.)But I am gonna tell you a story.It""s a funny story so get ready to laugh....Get ready to bust your sides laughin"", ""cause it""s sure a funny story.It""s about a hick.A hick like you, if you please.Yeah, like you.He grew up on the dirt roads and the gully washes of a farm.He knew what it was to get up before dawn and get feed and slop and milk before breakfast, and then set out before sunup and walk six miles to a one-room, slab-sided schoolhouse.The film reflected the dire effects of the Great Depression on the common man in its story of a WWI veteran who faced unemployment, was unjustly convicted of a petty robbery, and then twice served and escaped from a southern chain gang as a hunted fugitive during he 1920s.In a montage of scenes, they enjoyed a picnic basket of drumsticks by the beach, kissed in the surfFrom Here to Eternity (1953)style, although Shrek actually ended up kissingThe Little Mermaid (1989)(who was thrown back into the ocean by Fiona and consumed by sharks as inJaws (1975)).At a pet store, he also purchased a studded collar for Butkus and a smaller version for his own wrist, declaring: "Now that""s what I call class.