The mill's closed. There's no more work. We're destitute. Come in, my little loves. I've got no option but to sell you all, for scientific experiments.

— (Michael Palin)

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12 seconds sound clip from the Monty Python's The Meaning of Life movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:25:59.113 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Oh, bloody hell.

- Oh, get it, would you, Deidre?

- All right, Mum.

- Now whose teatime is it?

- Mine!

- Come on. Out you go.

- Now, Vincent, Tessa, Valerie, Janine, Martha, Andrew, Thomas, Walter, Pat, Linda, Michael, Evadne, Alice, Dominique and Sasha, it's your bedtime. Now don't argue! Laura, Alfred, Nigel, Annie, Simon...

- Wait. I've got something to tell the whole family.

- Oh, quick. Go and get the others in, Gordon.

- The mill's closed. There's no more work. We're destitute. Come in, my little loves. I've got no option but to sell you all, for scientific experiments.

- No, no, that's the way it is, my loves. Blame the Catholic Church, for not letting me wear one of those little rubber things.

- Oh, they've done some wonderful things in their time. They've preserved the might and majesty, even mystery of the Church of Rome, and the sanctity of the sacrament, the indivisible oneness of the Trinity...

- But if they'd let me wear one of those little rubber things on the end of my cock, we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.

- Couldn't Mummy have worn some sort of pessary?

- Not if we're going to remain members of the fastest-growing religion in the world, my boy.

- He's right.

[...]

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