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- What's the matter, Min?
- A man just went past me on a ladder!

8 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 8, The Space Age classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:18:05 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Don't worry. I have an invention here which can get her well clear of the chimney, and into space! Yes! It's called a twenty-foot ladder, because of its length.

- Quick, stick it up the chimney then... Now up you go.

- Can you reach her?

- Not quite. The ladder's not long enough.

- Don't worry... Just put this giant handy interballistic rocket to the bottom of the ladder, light the fuse, so...

- Ohh, ohhhh!

- What's the matter, Min?

- A man just went past me on a ladder!

- This is a great day for army deserters. The first one has just been launched into space!

- Let's send up Ray Ellington! Come along... come on...

- The scene is the opera house Aldershot. A critical first-night audience are judging the military police solo ballet contest.

- Thank you, thank you, and now for a encore, Lance-Corporal Ninger will dance the solo Pas de Deux from the Constable Ballet Coppelia.

- Sir, sir, stop the contest! Stop the contest, I say!

[...]

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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