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What inauguration ceremony?

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

You can hear this line at 00:15:26 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Not too close, gentlemen, ah-ah! Mind you don't fall in!

- Ah, terribly sorry!

- It looks like the real thing.

- Well, it has to. These starlings must not suspect for a moment, Mr. Fairfax. After all, they know the real thing.

- When will it be ready?

- Well, the head of the department tells me the mixture will take ten days to cool.

- That's not bad at all.

- Then it is to be given artificial colouring and forced into tubes ready for squirting on to the buildings.

- All in all, about two weeks, I should say. By then the inaugurating ceremony will be ready.

- What inauguration ceremony?

- My dear sir, the exploding of the artificial bird-lime necessitates the pressing of a button.

- And it is common law that all cutting of tapes and pressing of buttons must be carried out with due ceremony...As it will be in this case.

- Can I quote you on that?

- You can quote me as saying it, but no more.

- What will be the date of the ceremony? Err, three weeks from now. The BBC are covering the occasion.

- They would!

- This is London. And now it's time for our special outside broadcast from Trafalgar Square.

[...]

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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