Goodness, Freddy, still here? What about the wife? ... Modern women! Well, we appreciate you working late, we do. ... Don't mention it. Glad to let the old boys know we have a sensible fellow on our hands. The noise Collins made about your hair! ... Hush! We need young blood, I've said it and said it. ... Well, you're a company man, I can tell. We have to look out for each other, eh? You'll have a place here as long as I'm around, don't worry about that. ... I just call it like I see it. Say, Freddy, how about this. Come around for dinner tonight. ... I insist! ... Oh, she can make more. ... My pleasure, Freddy. My pleasure. Go on, off you go home, get changed. Fetch the wife, too, eh? She's a lovely little duckie. ... Just explain it to her, old chap. ... There's a sensible fellow.

Six little babies, cheerful as can be Mama tucks them all to sleep And has a cup of tea

But as I was saying pumpkin, it's not like it bothered me, I'm not one of those – it's the principle, though, right, I mean, I'm sorry buddy, but that's just how – it's a narrow street, it's an old street – you know what I mean pumpkin, I don't need to tell you – I'm a pretty easygoing – I mean ask anyone, if it was up to me just park anywhere, but I'm sorry but where would we – I don't make the rules, I'd be happy to let it go, but this is society, someone's gotta, someone has to take a stand.

This is a dream, she said.

“Clara, darling.” Maudie grinned at her, long and sly, and winked. “I thought you'd never notice.”

NEVER WAS A WINNER: Movie buffs may recall – with chagrin – this failed 1973 Dermott O'Shaughnessey romance-cum-John West advertisement. Funded partly by the fishing giant and featuring multiple shots of O'Shaughnessey eating canned herring and giving the camera a thumbs-up, Make Him a Winner also holds the dubious honour of containing the longest hair-combing scene in movie history (8m32sec). Giuseppina Cottoletta is a mysterious gypsy heiress who washes up on the Dingle coast, and noted character actor Rupert “Tubby” Thompson plays Reedy, God of the Sea, with obvious mortification. Kael's review: “It reeks more than the set dressings must have.”