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Now that you've killed it what do you want to do? Hold a post mortem on it?

4 seconds sound clip from the Christmas in July (1944) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:34:11 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- It's brief, it's smooth, it's pungent.

- It's putrid.

- And just why is it putrid?

- Because it smells.

- Well, well! So there you are, Billdocker, and all the rest of you! Playing poker I suppose!

- Now, now that the contest is over, I wondered if you would be kind enough to all get back to your offices and clients and sell a little coffee for a change? Or am I becoming too commercial?

- And while I'm on the subject, I just want to tell you that of all the groups of fat heads, that I've ever had the misfortune to gaze upon, you take the log pail.

- And what about the contest?

- Well, what about it?

- Now that you've killed it what do you want to do? Hold a post mortem on it?

- Don't you want us to choose a winner?

- You did choose a winner.

- Who chose a winner? We certainly did not choose a winner.

- Well, you certainly did choose a winner, you... What do you mean you didn't choose a winner!?

- I mean we haven't reached a verdict yet!

- Well, you certainly have reached a verdict yet!

- What are you trying to do? Stand there and tell me you haven't reached a verdict yet?

- We have not!

[...]

Christmas in July (1944) Sound Clip

The African Queen (1952)Funny quotes with sound clips from Christmas in July - Lux Radio Theatre play originally broadcast on June 25, 1944.

Actors: Dick Powell (Jimmy), Linda Darnell (Betty), Raymond Walburn (Maxford), Lionel Barrymore (Narrator)

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