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

Spike Milligan

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

You can hear this line at 00:05:56 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- 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...

- Yes, but what you don't know is, that the man who bought New York in 1626 has since died.

- Yes, and furthermore, he died without any heirs.

- He died bald?

- Yes, but only from the waist up.

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