The inventors were filled with remorse, and in sack cloth they marched the streets...

inventors

8 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 4 Special, The Starlings classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:03:06 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Flashing lights and Chinese crackers!

- Large things dropped from a great height, and vice-versa!

- Failing that, rice puddings fired from catapults!

- For some inexplicable reason all these devices failed.

- The starlings remained.

- The inventors were filled with remorse, and in sack cloth they marched the streets...

(Footsteps marching slowly to a drumbeat)

- At the same time at the Ministry of Grit, Filth and Exportable Heads, the Secretary, Mr Ned Bladok was handed a vital bird statistic.

- Are you sure this figure is correct?

- Yes.

- Have you had it checked?

- Yes.

- You mean that there are 30 million starlings roosting in Trafalgar Square?

- Yes.

- Thank you, Miss Perch.

[...]

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