Up to now I've been thinking I'm just lucky, but slowly I realize I've been playing with marked oysters.
7 seconds sound clip from the Rocky Fortune - Oyster Shucker (Ep. 1) classic radio drama series episode.
You can hear this line at 00:12:34 in the radio play.
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- Oh. Oh, then we've gotta start looking for them. Right now.
- Right now I've gotta look for some shoes. A guy can get half of each foot this way.
- We head back into the 50 Fathoms Clam House and try to find the pearls.
- I'm cutting my bare feet to ribbons on broken clam shells.
- We go through the sawdust in the pantry a spoonful at a time, but we draw a blank. No pearls.
- I figure them pearls must be hot as a tin roof in August.
- Rocky, what happens if we don't find them? They might kill you.
- Yeah. I was thinking that was a possibility too.
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