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Barmaid: This is the famous machine gun section which swung the battle of Hyderabad and is known as the shower...
And right on their tail comes another one of those signs. |
I've been to this kind of establishment before. Printed menus. The have a whopping one at the Siam Hotel, gold on white. I bought one once. If you've got the right contacts you can get any thing. One thing on it is Chicauqua sauce. And that's just a side dish. Chicauqua sauce!
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A cigar more or less that you might feel like smoking at our expense would not be worth mentioning.
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It is not that I am reluctant to oblige you, but unfortunately I have to hurry home. I have bought a cucumber for dinner and therefore cannot do exactly as I would like.
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Isn't that right, my dear sir? Isn't it all a joke?
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Yes, it's sort of a bit of a - smoke. (laughs)
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How helpless a weak woman is against four such strong men. Let no one ever say the Widow Begbick hindered a man from changing his trousers.
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What's all this about?
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It's all about nothing, really.
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Won't it be dangerous if it gets found out?
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Not in the least. And in your case, once equals never.
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True enough. Once equals never. Or so they say.
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Rain clouds are coming up fast...
And if Jip is discovered we're sunk. |
Too small, I'll never get into it.
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You see, he can't get into it.
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And the boots pinch horribly.
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Shut up, Polly. Four because everything's too small and particularly because the boots pinch so. Don't they?
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To the highest degree. They pinch quite particularly.
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Uriah: His pay book!
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I take good care of my things, you see.
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And our lost comrade's name is Jeraiah Jip. Jeraiah Jip!
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Jeraiah Jip!
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It's a pleasure to meet well-bred persons who know how to conduct themselves in any situation.
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And what is in it or me?
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A bottle of beer. Come on.
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Gentlemen, my profession of porter obliges me to look after my own interests in any situation. I was thinking of two cigars and four or five bottles of beer.
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But we need you for that roll call.
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Exactly.
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All right. Two cigars and three or four bottles of beer.
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Three cigars and five bottles.
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I don't get it. You just said two cigars.
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If you're going to take that line it will be five cigars and six bottles.
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Right. It's a deal if you come along with us right away.
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Right.
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And what is your name?
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Jip! Jeraiah Jip!
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Fairchild: And now there will be a slight pause.
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Jeraiah Jip!
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Ho, we'd take action...
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This sort of little favor, man to man, can't do any harm. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, that's the idea.
Now I'll drink a glass of beer as if it were water and tell myself: you've done these gentleman a good turn. And all that counts in this world is to take a chance now and then and say "Jeraiah Jip" the way another man would say "Good evening," and be the way people want you to be, because it's so easy. |
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I'm afraid we're in a great hurry, sir.
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Couldn't I help with that too?
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No we have no further need of you, sir...
Give them a finger and they'll have your whole hand. |
Now I could go away, but should a man go away when he is sent away? Perhaps once he is gone he may be needed again? And can a man go away when he is needed? Unless it has to be. A man should not go away.
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Haven't we met somewhere?
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(shakes head)
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Aren't you the man who carried my basket of cucumbers for me?
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(shakes head)
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Isn't your name Galy Gay?
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No.
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