- Right. See, I've got forty pounds here... I'll just peel them off. Forty, thirty-nine, thirty-eight. There. Thirty-eight pounds.
- Thank you.
11 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 8, The Space Age classic radio program.
You can hear this line at 00:05:30 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- No, no, no, ladder's a good name for it.
- I must tell Folks, just a minute, my trumpet. Calling folks! Hello folks!
- Well, to anyone else, ten shillings. But to you, 38 pounds.
- In thirty-eight one-pound notes.
- Now pick a card, don't let me see it, what is it?
- The forty-three of diamonds.
- You lose. Pay pontoons only, 28 pounds. I thank you.
- Now Neddie, here, Neddie, are full scale plans of a ladder.
- These plans are made of paper!
- Brilliant! But I'd better not take any chances. I think I'll make a wooden one.
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