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- You must pardon the steam Count, he's in strict training.
- For what?
- His death.

8 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 9, The Mountain Eaters classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:03:39 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And both my legs are licensed for walking.

- They won't last, I tell you. No.

- What are you doing in there?

- Well, apart from that, I'm over here on a sort of busman's holiday.

- Doing what?

- Driving buses.

- I do it to eke out my fifty pound allowance.

- Fifty pounds? He's got money, he's got money!

- You must pardon the steam Count, he's in strict training.

- For what?

- His death.

- Huh! Gad, he looks in perfect condition for it. He must win.

- Yes.

- Well, I think I will go and blow the fifty pounds on the table.

- Fifty pounds again.

- Is he ill?

- I fear he's got the dreaded pauper's crut, you know. There is only one known cure - fifty pounds placed inside the victim's wallet.

- Has he got that much?

- No, but just by chance he has an empty wallet.

[...]

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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