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Look, lads. I've had enough of this. I've been paying you for thirty-eight years to keep my secret. I've only got three shillings left.

9 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 8, The Space Age classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:03:57 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Bang bang, ratatata boom, bang...

- We would like to assure nervous listeners that the shellfire they hear is not genuine. It is being done orally by an unscrupulous military policeman, who takes protection money from deserters who are not aware that the war is over.

- And if you'll pardon me, I'll slip away before they notice my Boer War helmet!

- Bang bang boom, ratatata bang, boom. BANG!

- Good heavens, that last one was close.

- Yes.

- Look, lads. I've had enough of this. I've been paying you for thirty-eight years to keep my secret. I've only got three shillings left.

- Oh, I see, Just one moment, please.

- Oh yes! We've got a little invention here we call The Deserter's Friend!

- What is it? A woman?

- No Neddie.

- With this gadget you can hide in space.

- Space? But I'm taking up too much already.

- Lad, we have perfected a method of getting a man off the ground under his own power. He needs no other means of propulsion.

- What, what, what, what, what, (turns into chicken noises)

[...]

The Goon Show Sound Clip

The Goon Show RadioQuotes with sound clips from The Goon Show radio comedy programme produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1951 to 1960.

Actors: Peter Sellers (Bloodnok / Bluebottle/ Grytpype-Thynne), Spike Milligan (Eccles / Minnie Bannister), Harry Secombe (Neddie Seagoon)

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