Last of the Summer Wine (TV Series)
Full Steam Behind (1979)
Peter Sallis: Clegg
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Quotes
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Foggy Dewhurst : It's sad to see the place in this condition.
Compo Simmonite : What are you talking about? Old railway sheds were always in this condition. Tat!
Foggy Dewhurst : Listen who's talking about being tat.
Compo Simmonite : They were built in this condition.
Norman Clegg : He could be right, Foggy.
Foggy Dewhurst : Who builds places in this condition?
Norman Clegg : Your local authorities mostly. It's called progress. It used to take years to build a slum, and nowadays they're building them practically ready-to-wear.
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[last lines]
Compo Simmonite : I'm glad that's all over.
Norman Clegg : Me, too.
Foggy Dewhurst : It'll be a long time before I go near another steam engine.
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[Foggy bursts into the house, repeatedly blowing a whistle and furiously waving a green flag]
Compo Simmonite : Look at that dozy pillock. What's he supposed to be?
Norman Clegg : Looks like a taxi driver.
Foggy Dewhurst : A taxi driver? What, with a whistle and a flag?
Norman Clegg : A lion tamer.
Compo Simmonite : For deaf lions.
Compo Simmonite : A lollipop man. That's what he is.
Foggy Dewhurst : [scornfully] Get on your feet. Come on, it's train time. Wake up, that man. We'll just be in time for the Grand Opening.
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Foggy Dewhurst : I'd no idea it was happening, till I ran into Arnold Watts.
Norman Clegg : You ran into Arnold Watts? I told you he was a taxi driver.
Foggy Dewhurst : No, I ran into him on foot.
Norman Clegg : You can't win with taxi drivers. If they miss you with a vehicle, they get out and *trample* you to death!
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Compo Simmonite : [sings gleefully] We're gonna see a puffer train!
Foggy Dewhurst : [proudly] Yes you are. And you'll be grateful. You're about to see a *steam engine*. A steam engine, *lovingly* restored. The official re-opening of the line, and we can be part of it. We can be among the passengers on this first *historic* journey.
Norman Clegg : As long as we don't have to walk.
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[Foggy, Compo and Clegg are waiting to catch a glimpse of the steam engine. Foggy is proud; Compo and Clegg are distinctly underwhelmed]
Foggy Dewhurst : Can't you work up a bit of enthusiasm? Can't you feel your spine tingling with pride?
Compo Simmonite : I can feel the ache in me spine from all that walking.
Norman Clegg : Mine's in my knee. I can feel my knee stiff with pride.
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Norman Clegg : It's no good, Foggy. It's too dangerous.
Foggy Dewhurst : Oh, what's life without a spice of danger?
Compo Simmonite : Longer!