I make a resolution to quit eating french fried potatoes and go back to unbuttoning oysters and remove their overcoats.

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7 seconds sound clip from the Rocky Fortune - Oyster Shucker (Ep. 1) classic radio drama series episode.

You can hear this line at 00:04:30 in the radio play.

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- Mr. Abenaki's coming in.

- Hey, chief, give me two double shrimp cocktails, a crab meat salad, lobster gumbo, a bowl of Boston, a bowl of Manhattan, and a bucket of lobsters.

- What do you got out there? Rotary luncheon?

- No. Just Mr. Abenaki.

- I take a peek through the kitchen door, and Mr. Abenaki is sitting on two chairs at once, and is still lapping over on all sides.

- Bonnie and Ferdinand are hovering around him like a pair of hummingbirds trying to neck with a navy blimp.

- I make a resolution to quit eating french fried potatoes and go back to unbuttoning oysters and remove their overcoats.

- It's lonely work, so I strike up a conversation. There's nobody in the pantry but me and the oysters, so I got no choice.

- You think you got troubles? I'm the one that ought to get stewed.

- You got it soft. You don't have to worry what happens if your lady friend decides to clam up.

- All you got to do is just lay there, and that's all.

- If you want to make an impression on the dame, all you got to do is whip up a pearl.

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