- 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.
— Harry Secombe, Neddie Seagoon (Harry Secombe), Grytpype Thynne (Peter Sellers)
10 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 6, Sale of Manhattan classic radio program.
You can hear this line at 00:05:48 in the radio play.
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- 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?
- And you know what New York is worth today?
- Forty thousand million billion dollars.
- Forty thousand million billion dollars? That money must be worth a fortune!
- Yes, but what you don't know is, that the man who bought New York in 1626 has since died.
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