- Tell me little Neddie, can you paddle a zinc bathtub?
- Like a native.
- Good! You are going to make the cheapest Atlantic crossing to America ever.
10 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 6, Sale of Manhattan classic radio program.
You can hear this line at 00:07:49 in the radio play.
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- Yes, all right! Ha ha! Oh, watch the old tenors - Oh there it is, the old tenors friend.
- Gad, I say, this is fun! Ha ha! Whoop! There, down to his birthday suit.
- No man can look like that and live!
- Right, now stick this feather behind your ear and put on this Indian loin cloth.
- Aaah! Ooo! C'mon, who's the joker who put a thistle in it?
- Tell me little Neddie, can you paddle a zinc bathtub?
- Good! You are going to make the cheapest Atlantic crossing to America ever.
- Not before I've heard Max Geldray play his leather earache and graphite dogbeard!
- Now, we return you to the story 'The Lost Colony'.
- Yes, I paddled my zinc bath towards my rightful heritage.
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