The inventors were filled with remorse, and in sack cloth they marched the streets...
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 inventors were filled with remorse, and in sack cloth they marched the streets...
(Footsteps marching slowly to a drumbeat)
- Are you sure this figure is correct?
- Yes.
- Yes.
- You mean that there are 30 million starlings roosting in Trafalgar Square?
- Yes.
- 30 million starlings! Mr. Thin!
[...]
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