What Neddie didn't know was an American company, the makers of Filth Muck, the detergent with the lead bubbles, had offered a prize of twenty dollars to the first idiot to cross the Atlantic in a zinc bath dressed as a Red Indian.
17 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 6, Sale of Manhattan classic radio program.
You can hear this line at 00:11:44 in the radio play.
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- Now, we return you to the story 'The Lost Colony'.
- Yes, I paddled my zinc bath towards my rightful heritage.
- After a mere thirteen months, I entered the harbour of New York and pulled into the quay.
- I was given an ovation, I still have it on my mantelpiece to this day.
- As I lay in hospital recovering from my trip, the phone rang... (Foghorn)... In American.
- Yes. But how did you know it was me before I spoke?
- So I am. But you too can be tall. Buy my book, How to be Three Inches Taller.
- Never mind those subtle jokes.
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