Wait! That means they owe me thirty-eight years coward deserters back pay! I'd better get down to Whitehall.

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

You can hear this line at 00:09:33 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- Hello folks, calling folks. I'm in a deserter's paradise, folks, balanced on top of a secret twenty-foot ladder, in the middle of Piccadilly circus.

- And damned silly you look, too, Mister Seagoon.

- Shh! Quiet. Do you want people to see me?

- It matters not if they do.

- The crux being that, World War One from which you hide, was terminated in 1918.

- Ohh, ohhh, ohhh! Thirty-eight years I've been a coward for nothing!

- Wait! That means they owe me thirty-eight years coward deserters back pay! I'd better get down to Whitehall.

- Ohhohhhohh, oh dear, oh dear. Oh dear, dear, that Chinese ginger, there ought to be a law against it you know.

- Ah, well! It's time the delightful Madame La Tool was here.

- Get me handkerchief, and me electric tango boots on.

- Now, turn the gas stove down low. Must have a romantic atmosphere, you know.

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