Honourable members, it was not an absolute failure.

5 seconds sound clip from The Goon Show, Series 4 Special, The Starlings classic radio program.

You can hear this line at 00:11:27 in the radio play.

Quote context

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(Dramatic chords and tune)

- February the thirty-second. All troops withdrawn. Operation Cacophony abandoned. A military disaster!

- Those responsible were clad in sack cloth and once more walked the streets! (Footsteps marching slowly to a drumbeat) (Despair music; cast sobs behind)

- Mr. Prime Minister, members, I admit that Operation Cacophony cost 160,000 pounds, and was a complete and utter failure, but these little mistakes will happen!

- You made a muck of it! Bravo!

- Honourable members, it was not an absolute failure.

- I mean, that is to say, though the starlings were not removed from Trafalgar Square, they were... err... well... rearranged!

- Rubbish! Rubbish!

- You should have used rice puddings fired from catapults!

- Nonsense! I suggest the hon our able member applies for the Chiltern Hundred.

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