Yes, but what you don't know is, that the man who bought New York in 1626 has since died.
11 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 6, Sale of Manhattan classic radio program.
You can hear this line at 00:06:13 in the radio play.
Quote context
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- 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.
- Yes, and furthermore, he died without any heirs.
- Yes, but only from the waist up.
- Gad!
- Neddie, and this is most significant, it has been discovered that the sale of New York was illegal.
- Gad! There, I said it well again.
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