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    Alas Smith and Jones

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    Alas Smith and Jones

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    This is a skit performed by Alas Smith and Jones. I've done a transcript below.

    There are some things I don't understand. Can you help me?

    Please watch it here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogey6EuYRPg
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    - What exactly can I do for you, Mr. P.?

    - I'm looking for a completely new type of bank account.

    - I see.

    - I want a current account that pays interest. And if I [...] go overdrawn, I don't expect to pay any bank charges. When I come into the bank I expect all the cashiers to stand up and say: "Good morning, Mr. P.".

    Will you please stop raising your eyebrows in that condescending [...] manner! And that tie will have to go!

    I want use of your house at weekends and you can't enter. I want a plumber who comes when he says he will, and an erection that lasts slightly longer than two and a half minutes.

    [...] my mother who is seventy-three and doesn't get out as much as she used to. I love you, mum. And three extra painters.

    And I want world peace, an end to all poverty and starvation, and a speedboat

    - I think that can be arranged. No problem.

    - Thank you very much.

    - And can you let go my bollocks, please?
    AuthorGastmann07 Oct 10, 22:56
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    Will you please stop raising your eyebrows in that condescendingly smug manner! And that tie will have to go!

    I want use of your house at weekends and your car [...]??.
    #1AuthorMaria (DE)07 Oct 10, 23:04
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    Anyone?
    #2AuthorGastmann07 Oct 10, 23:53
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    Carpenter?
    #3AuthorEule08 Oct 10, 21:56
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    - What exactly can I do for you, Mr. Pritchard?

    - I'm looking for a completely new type of bank account.

    - I see.

    - I want a current account that pays interest. And if I go overdrawn, I don't expect to pay any bank charges. When I come into the bank I expect all the cashiers to stand up and say: "Good morning, Mr. P.".

    Will you please stop raising your eyebrows in that condescendingly smug manner?
    And that tie will have to go!

    I want use of your house at weekends and you can't enter. I want a plumber who comes when he says he will, and an erection that lasts slightly longer than two and a half minutes. vielleicht auch etwas mit "your car", schlecht zu verstehen.

    [...] my mother who is seventy-three and doesn't get out as much as she used to. I love you, mum. And three extra painters. Das mit der Mutter kann ich wegen des Gelächters im Hintergrund nicht verstehen.

    And I want world peace, an end to all poverty and starvation, and a speedboat.

    - I think that can be arranged. No problem.

    - Thank you very much.

    - And can you let go of my bollocks, please?


    #4Author Dragon (238202) 08 Oct 10, 22:18
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    @Dragon: I think that's what Eule meant: maybe "your carpenter" instead of "you can't enter". It would make sense because later he mentions plumbers and painters. But I'm not sure. Why is he so focused on workmen?
    #5AuthorGastmann10 Oct 10, 21:10
    Suggestionand your car anytime
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    I want use of your house at weekends and YOUR CAR ANYTIME.

    It isn't "painters". It think it is "PINTAS" (i.e. three extra pints of milk)
    #6Authortomtom10 Oct 10, 21:30
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    And what about [...] my mother...

    I know, it't difficult but...
    #7AuthorGastmann10 Oct 10, 22:40
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    As to my mother...

    Glaube ich.
    #8AuthorMaria (DE)10 Oct 10, 22:56
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    pinta (plural pintas)
    - (UK, colloquial) A pint of milk.
    http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pinta
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    tomtom hat vielleicht recht: It's not "painters", it's "pintas".
    #9AuthorGastmann11 Oct 10, 22:27
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    I want to thank my mother...

    maybe
    #10Authorbrandson (de)11 Oct 10, 23:35
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    Wobei ich gerade überlege, dass der Satz dann eigentlich anders weitergehen müsste: Für seine Mutter will er drei Extra-Glas Milch.

    As to (?)my mother, who is seventy-three and doesn't get out as much as she used to - I love you, mum - I want (?) three extra pintas.
    #11AuthorMaria11 Oct 10, 23:44
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    I want to thank of my mother...?
    #12AuthorGastmann11 Oct 10, 23:52
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    Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass er überhaupt nichts mit "thank" sagt.
    #13AuthorMaria11 Oct 10, 23:54
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    Sondern?
    #14AuthorGastmann28 Oct 10, 21:55
     
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