An English gardener in England was showing some Americans one of those wonderful English lawns and, of course, they wanted to know how to make a lawn like that. And this English gardener said...
14 seconds sound clip from the Beat the Devil (1953) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:24:51 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You know, if I ever leave you, it will be for someone of the type of Harry Chelm.
- I suppose that type of Englishman is like a story I once heard.
- He said, All you have to do is get some good grass and roll it every day for 600 years.
- I heard that story before you were born.
- Englishmen tell it when they're feeling down in the mouth.
- You just don't understand the Chelm type.
- You're not even listening. You never do. Someday I'll say good-bye and you won't hear that either.
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