I could never understand why, because I found it a lot easier to use matches.
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Gladstone: When I was a boy scout back in Trinidad, they taught us how to light a fire with a stick and a piece of string. Kids Today Fowler: Completing a model of the Forth Bridge - that's what ecstasy is! It makes me sad to see these children today, with their drugs and sex and music, they'll never know the joy a young lad could have sitting alone in his room. Kray: Shouldn't be too difficult to spot then. He's out there somewhere - a fat cat spinning his web with his tentacles in every pie. Grim: Local delinquents nick the cars and flog 'em on to Mr. Dawkins: We do not have a sex life! Fowler: In which case, I really don't see how there can be a problem with it. What next? Are we to refer to grievous bodily harm as "fun punching?" Assault with a deadly weapon as "laugh and a stab?"ĭawkins: We are not the first, and we won't be the last, couple to have problems with our sex life. Crime is crime, and should not be trivialised. Fowler: Your head is just something you keep your hat on, isn't it? Night Shift Fowler: "Joy-riding" is not a term I will allow in my station.
My niece is only 10, and she can speak fluent English. Do you know that 12-year-olds in Holland and Belgium can already speak fluent English? Goody: They're no cleverer than British children, sir. You're not worth charging, just shove off. We'll go to Britain, where the academic elite are a bunch of idiots in tutus and gorilla masks?" Or will he go to continental Europe, where young people wear Benetton tops and respect authority? Did you ever think of that? Well, I suggest you buck up your ideas, or before long Britain's name will be mud, or worse it'll be Italy. God help us! Do you honestly think that any halfway decent Japanese company's going to want to give any of you lot a job? When Mr Mitsubishi is asking himself, "Where shall I construct our new generation of small family hatchbacks?", do you think he's going to say, "I know. The future of Britain, the cream of a proud nation. I never deployed it, of course, but the capacity was there. Rag Week Fowler: I've always attempted to keep a mature outlook, but I cannot deny there have been lapses I once possessed a whoopie cushion. (Habib staying in character for her Honey Trap operation) Habib: Hello gorgeous, ooh I love a man in a uniform! *gasp* Is that a truncheon in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? (blows Goody a kiss) Goody: (almost unable to speak) Actually, it's a Mars Bar. And how did your team fare? Gladstone: I don't know I forgot where the pub was.
Memory, memory, memory, detail, detail, detail!" Fowler: Well, excellent advice, Gladstone. Fowler: Were you really? Gladstone: Oh yes! I remember telling the lads before our first match, "Memory and detail let those be our by-words. Gladstone: I was captain of a pub-quiz side once, sir. Sick Man: I have the right to a lawyer and a bucket.
Goody: Could you describe these items please, sir?įowler: The point of Biggles and of Sherlock Holmes is to solve crimes and kill Germans, and by heavens, that should be enough for any man! Fire and Terror Habib: Are you not coming in for a coffee? I've got a packet of condoms.I mean, biscuits. Robbery Victim: "What's been taken?" My self-respect, my peace of mind, my sense of well-being.
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Series One The Queen's Birthday Present Fowler: I'd like to meet the man who can get inside my trousers.