- What do you mean, three Rs?
- Well, reading, writing and... and... figuring.

— (Stan Laurel), Ollie (Oliver Hardy)

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10 seconds sound clip from the A Chump at Oxford (1939) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:17:33 in the DVD version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I wonder what's the matter with us. We're just as good as other people, yet we don't seem to advance ourselves.

- You know what the trouble is, don't you? We never had no education, that's what's the matter. We're not illiterate enough.

- I guess you're right.

- Sure I'm right.

- If we went to school like other people, we would learn our three Rs, and today there'd be no job too small for us, believe me.

- What do you mean, three Rs?

- Well, reading, writing and... and... figuring.

- Sure. You know - two and two make something and four and four make something. It's different to the first...

- You mean 'rithmetic.

- Yeah, I knew what it meant but I couldn't say it.

- I think you've got something there.

[...]

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A Chump at Oxford Sound Clip

Quotes from the movie A Chump at Oxford (1939), featuring short sound clips with voice, which can be downloaded for sharing them with your friends, use in your music mixes, or as ringtones.

Actors: Stan Laurel (Stan / Lord Paddington), Oliver Hardy (Ollie), James Finlayson (Mr. "Baldy" Vanderveer)

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