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

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

You can hear this line at 00:05:36 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Forty thousand million billion dollars? That money must be worth a fortune!

(Short crowd laughter)

- Well, to think that they sold all that for a piece of brown string, eleven pence in notes, a Mickey Mouse watch, remains of a small boiled chicken...

[...]

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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