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What were they?

3 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 6, Sale of Manhattan classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:05:24 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Thank you, they wish to know that, no, but I accept your apology.

- Are you still interested in the Empire, Neddie?

- Gad, yes. I'd give anything to see the Union Jack flying over Grosvenor Square. Piloted by an Englishman, of course.

- Neddie, let me tell you a tale.

- In 1626, a Dutchman bought the land on which New York now stands from a Red Indian for a few paltry trinkets.

- What were they?

- A piece of brown string, eleven pence in notes, a Mickey Mouse watch, remains of a small boiled chicken and a life-size statue of Sabrina.

- The very things I had in my pocket!

- Yes, it means that you are a direct descendant of the Red Indian who sold the land.

- What? You mean, my ancestors owned New York?

- Yes indeed yes!

- And you know what New York is worth today?

- Forty thousand million billion dollars.

- Correct. How did you know?

- Just a shot in the dark.

[...]

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He appears to be having trouble with the great microphone of state, the same used ever since 1672, hand beaten and foot slapped, gold and silver surmounted by 2 Burmese cherubs, fashioned by the great sculptor Ben Venuto Selinae and his brother Fred.
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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