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Yes, I paddled my zinc bath towards my rightful heritage.

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

You can hear this line at 00:11:27 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Tell me little Neddie, can you paddle a zinc bathtub?

- Like a native.

- Good! You are going to make the cheapest Atlantic crossing to America ever.

- Not before I've heard Max Geldray play his leather earache and graphite dogbeard!

- Well said.

(crowd applause and cheer)

- He is always well supplied with work by his agents. In fact, his bank balance now stands at four hundred and eighty pounds in bright red letters.

- 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.

- 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.

- As I lay in hospital recovering from my trip, the phone rang... (Foghorn)... In American.

- Hello, Grytpype?

- Yes. But how did you know it was me before I spoke?

- Well, you're so tall...

[...]

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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