Well? Anyone got anything they'd rather be doing, than marching up and down the square?

— (Michael Palin)

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

You can hear this line at 00:49:49.458 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- But when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself.

- And without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint, against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could quite simply disappear.

- That is why we'll always need an army. And may God strike me down were it to be otherwise.

- Don't stand there gawping, like you've never seen the hand of God before!

- Now, today we're going to do marching up and down the square. That is, unless any of you got anything better to do.

- Well? Anyone got anything they'd rather be doing, than marching up and down the square?

- Yes! Atkinson. What would you rather be doing, Atkinson?

- Well, to be quite honest, Sarge, I'd rather be home with the wife and kids.

- Would you now?

- Yes, Sarge.

- Right. Off you go.

- Now, everybody else happy with my little plan, of marching up and down the square a bit?

- Sarge?

- Yes?

- I've got a book I'd quite like to read.

- Right, you go read your book then!

[...]

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