AYLESBURY WITH BOB & CURLY
THE RICH HISTORY, CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURE OF
AYLESBURY (A TOWN IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND)
THROUGH THE EYES OF TWO BADMOUTHED TEDDY BEARS.
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- Hello, I'm Bob.
And I'm Curly! -
Actually, Bob is short for Beelzee Bob, isn't it?
Is it true you are Satan's own teddy bear,
hell bent on destruction?
- Whatever Curly, you Muppet.
Right, that's the polite bollocks
over and done with.
On with the show.
Thank fuck for that. -
- It says here, Aylesbury is best known for the
type of white duck that was once reared there.
Aylesbury Ducks, as the breed became known,
were famous for being, err...white. Big sodding deal.
Truly fascinating... (stifled yawn) -
- I believe it's also Cockney rhyming
slang. "Oi, Love, do you fancy
an Aylesbury?" they shout.
What does that mean then? -
- Um, ruck I think... you know, a fight.
Fair enough. -
- It also says the name Aylesbury was first
recorded in the 6th century and comes from
Aegel's burh, or fortress. Not Ailes meaning
Shit and Berri meaning Hole then,
as I first suspected.
Shocking. The Patron Saint of Aylesbury -
is St. Osyth, who was the niece of Edith, who
in-turn, was the sister of King Wulfhere (657-674)
- Now that's what I call history!
Tony Robinson and your so-called
Time Team, eat your hearts out!
Fun though this is, I think we should -
get on with the nitty gritty. You know,
Aylesbury as it is today. Vibrant, dynamic...
I'm sorry, I don't know why I said that.
- Have a sit down Curly, while I tell the nice
people out there how this works. The map
below has little targets on it which link to
various pictures. I'm sure you can workout
the rest for yourselves, as we take you on
A VIRTUAL TOUR OF AYLESBURY!
This map of Aylesbury may help to navigate this page
Bob - And this is it. Aylesbury.
Curly - Chilling, yet perversely beautiful.
Bob - Mmmmmm. Like a talented surrealist's fridge.
Curly - (Backing slowly away) I- Er- Yup. Whatever you say Bob. You're the man. I mean Bear.
Bob - I'll talk you through the landmarks, if that be the right word. On the left is the County Council Office Tower, which not so-much dominates the town as looms over it like Vesuvius looms over Pompeii. Next to it are the six enormous white 'H's which support the huge Friars Square's Shopping Centre roof. They can take on the appearance of a ships masts sometimes. In the middle, and well beyond the town, is Beacon Hill, (with two trees on top of it) and to the right is St. Mary's Church and some nasty 60's office block developments.
Curly - And in the foreground?
Bob - A hedge and a small black bird.
Curly - I see. And the area above the horizon?
Bob - The sky.
Curly - Aha. Aha. And the hazy grey forms would be..?
Bob - Clouds.
Curly - Lovely.
Bob - Yeah, stunning. Anyhow, the history of Aylesbury stretches back to the Romans, who built Akeman Street (now the A41), one of their major roads, past the hill where the town now skulks.
Curly - Before that there is evidence of Iron-age and Bronze-age hill forts on this site. Judging by the local inhabitants, the genes of those people, and even earlier proto-humans are still alive and well in the population.
Bob - Moving on, the bloke to the right is allegedly Aylesbury's most famous son, although no one's ever heard of him. He was John Hampden and he was involved in the civil war in a big way. He was killed in 1643 during the fighting and died in a pub ten miles out of town, in Thame, which is in Oxfordshire.
Curly - That's not a Nazi salute then?
Bob - No, but the thigh-length boots, long hair and dress do suggest he was a transvestite.
Curly - Game on. The moustache was a bit of a mistake then.
Bob - True. Other local history stuff includes something about the Great Train Robbers at the County Court in town and the filming of some scenes for A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick in 1970.
Curly - Plus Fish, lead singer of mid-80's pop pho- phonom- group Marillion used to live here.
Bob - If you're talking about Derek Dick, you're right. Slightly more interestingly, Chequers, the Prime Ministers country home is just up the road.
Curly - And Roald Dahl, children's author of such literary masterpieces as The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lived in a village just a few miles out of town.
Bob - I prefer that J.K.Rowling bird. You know, she did the Harry Potter books?
Curly - Yeah, me too. Finally, John Craven of Newsround and Country File fame and David Jason of Only Fools and Horses and Frost are both 'Local'.
Bob - Who's this then?
Curly - I take it you can read?
Bob - Of course.
Curly - Then you should know that this is the Charles Compton, 3rd Baron Chesham.
Bob - And he's famous for?
Curly - Frig knows. The picture is more about the building behind him. That's the County Court Building where the great train robbers were tried in April 1964. They're famous for pulling off The greatest crime of the century.
Bob - Ahem.
Curly - Yes?
Bob - They all got caught though, didn't they? Ok, so it was an impressive robbery, but doesn't getting caught and put in prison put something of a damper on things. Surely the crime of the century should be one which the perpetrators got away scot-free with?
Curly - Maybe.
Bob - Come on! Any idiot can stop a train which is transporting bank notes to be destroyed, march onto it, repeatedly cosh the driver and quickly unload dozens of mailbags into a waiting lorry which then gets driven to an isolated farm house. It's the not getting caught bit which would have been the icing on the cake-of-crime.
Curly - Yes.
Bob - Another stiff immortalized in bronze?
Curly - Sadly yes. This pigeon effluent collection point is in the shape of Benjamin 'I've got a big cock' Disraeli.
Bob - Wasn't he Queen Victoria's favourite Prime Minister, the man who said, "There are lies, damn lies and statistics", and the Earlobe of Beaconsfield?
Curly - All correct, except I think if you read the plaque again you'll see he was actually the Earl of Beaconsfield, not it's earlobe.
Bob - Oh yes. You're right so.
Curly - Are you developing an Irish accent?
Bob - I've been watching too much Father Ted I think.
Curly - Apt, I guess.
Bob - Oh go on, go on, go on, go on, go on...
Curly - Yes, yes. Very good.
Bob - Arse!
Curly - You said it Bob.
Bob - Anyway, he looks like he's cupping someone's balls and telling them to cough.
Curly - It'd have to be a very tall person.
Bob - Or they could be stood on a chair?
Curly - I have nothing more to say. Let's move on.
Bob - The High Street!
Curly - It's not called that because of the drug addicts hanging about outside Gala Bingo, waiting for old dears to push over for their pension money either.
Bob - Why are High Streets called High Streets then?
Curly - Well. When they were the original main route through a town or village, they had a much better surface put down on them than the other a joining roads. This raised the level of the surface up higher than the surroundings and thus the name High Street was born.
Bob - You just made that up.
Curly - It's the best I could do on the spur of the moment.
Bob - I wonderer where that phrase comes from too.
Curly - Well. Spur of the moment refers to, err...
Bob - Westerns?
Curly - Exactly, and how you can only enjoy a Western for, err...
Bob - A moment.
Curly - Good enough. Bloody rubbish parking in the High Street, as you can see.
Bob - The Saturday Market, where you can buy, or carefully shop-lift, anything from nasty nylon counterfeit clothing to poorly-made Korean copies of sports goods! And all in a rain-sodden, open-air setting!
Curly - Held in the historic, cobbled Market Square for centuries!
Bob - Um. No.
Curly - Ok. How's this: Held in the slippery-surfaced Market Square for literally a long time. Better?
Bob - Not really.
Curly - Fuck. Ok, ok. Let's try it this way: Held in the pokey Market Square for quite a while. Happy now?
Bob - Much better.
Curly - I'd better explain. Before the hideous concrete Friars Square shopping centre was re-developed in the 90's, the Saturday Market was held in a sunken concrete depression in the middle of the site.
Bob - Depression. Such an apt word for anything in Aylesbury.
Curly - There are good things about Aylesbury, Bob.
Bob - What are they then?
Curly - The roads out of it.
Bob - Saint Mary's Church.
Curly - I can see it's a church Bob.
Bob - But it's a church dedicated to Saint Mary.
Curly - Have you got any idea what did she do to become a Saint?
Bob - That's simple. Almost as simple as you Curly. She was canonised by the Pope.
Curly - (Sigh) Ok. So it's a big building for religious worship.
Bob - And it has a coffee shop.
Curly - And that makes it all right, does it?
Bob - I think so.
Curly - You do know I have something against organised religions, don't you?
Bob - Don't be a daft bastard. This building has nothing to do with organised religion. It's C of E.
Curly - As you like. Nice bit of lead on that roof though...
Bob - You're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you?
Curly - Only if you're thinking that I'm thinking that you should get a life, buddy.
Bob - Moving forward, this looks a pleasant enough place.
Curly - Perhaps a bit short on night-life?
Bob - The town does have a couple of night-spots, but nothing worthy of the name 'Nightclub'.
Curly - Right. So what is there for young people to do of an evening?
Bob - Sony PlayStation games seem popular.
Curly - (Chuckling) I hear what you're saying Bob. I'm quite partial to Dreamcast myself.
Bob - How do you find the small buttons of the pad without an opposable thumb?
Curly - I use a mouse and keyboard for Quake III Arena.
Bob - Hang-on. Aren't we supposed to be talking about Aylesbury?
Curly - Bugger. Ok Bob, tell them about something interesting then.
Bob - The most striking feature of the town, if that's the right word,
is this horrific tower, the Bucks County Council offices. Fabricated in the 60's, as if you couldn't tell, it's known locally as Fred's Folly or Poley's Palace, after
some wanker called Fred, who was the guilty architect.
Bastard.
Curly - It's visible from space, isn't it Bob?
Bob - Curly, are you some sort of twat? It's not the flaming Great Wall of China, is it?!
Curly - A polite 'No' would have done. I think I'm right in saying that the tower, the two libraries (lending and reference), the Bus Station, the underground market (now called the Cloisters) and the main shopping complex, which all form a single structure is visible from space with a good telescope.
Bob - (Sigh.) Anyway, in the foreground is the bridge over the ring-road from the multi-storey car-park to the Friars Square Shopping Centre. Which is home to Woolworths, BHS and Beaties.
Curly - Who gives a damn about that?
Bob - Good point.
Curly - Was it leading somewhere?
Bob - Yeah, it was leading here, the Friars Square Shopping Centre.
Curly - It looks nice enough.
Bob - Well, yeah. Looks, granted. But beneath the surface it's a burning maelstrom of seething tension.
Curly - Why's that then?
Bob - They made it a No Smoking zone.
Curly - Damn. For a moment there I thought it was going to be something thrilling and exciting!
Bob - In Aylesbury? You've got to be having a Giraffe.
Curly - Ok, ok. What excitement does this shopping centre have to offer then?
Bob - There is a couple of lifts and some escalators.
Curly - Deep joy.
Bob - It does have a particularly fine roof, reminiscent of the Crystal Palace, built in Hyde Park in London to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.
Curly - No wonder you always win at Trivial Pursuit.
Bob - Now for some culture!
Curly - At long last!
Bob - This is Church Street, so named because... Arses! Did you write this script?
Curly - With these paws? Are you kidding? When I try to type I hit five keys at once.
Bob - You manage to play Quake III ok though, don't you? Moron. Anyway, the big building, the one that's Not A Church, is the Buckinghamshire County Museum, home to lots of bits of pottery, old coins and dinosaur bones.
Curly - That's a bit unfair. It's won awards.
Bob - So did the Beatles, but I wouldn't want to spend a couple of hours in any of them.
Curly - Um... The Roald Dahl Children's Gallery is 'where you can step into a magical world' and looks pretty good. Check opening times and entrance prices during normal UK office hours on (01296) 331441, or there's 24 hour recorded information on the same number.
Bob - You sell-out. Curly, The Public Information Bear. You're making a bright future for yourself there.
Curly - Wanker.
Bob - The Hale Leys Shopping Center!
Curly - Centre you twonk. We're not Americans yet!
Bob - 51st State Curly, 51st State.
Curly - Whatever. Despite its appearance, the shopping centre - and popular cut-through from the Market Square to the High Street - isn't being bombed in this picture. The light in the shot is actually due to a rare sighting of the sun in Aylesbury.
Bob - I can't tell you how much of a relief that news comes to me as Curles.
Curly - Don't call me Curles. My name is Curly.
Bob - The complex was opened in 1983 by Princess Diana, no less.
Curly - And now she's DEAD! Hahahahaha!
Bob - I don't think she's dead because she opened a shopping centre Curly.
Curly - Oh yes. That's what they want you to think!
Bob - I wonder what Diana would say if she was alive today?
Curly - "Why is it so dark? Help! Can anyone hear me? Oh God, I'm so scared. Please, someone get me out of here!" And so on.
Bob - To call you a sick-fuck would be an insult to sick-fucks everywhere. Anyhow, this architectural Tour De Force is the Equitable Life building. One of the biggest employers in Aylesbury, they built this beast in the 80's I think.
Curly - I'm told it's known as the Blue-Leanie by the locals. Why's that then?
Bob - I have a selection of ways to answer that question. I'll settle for: "They call it the Blue-Leanie because of a serious lack of imagination".
Curly - I thought as much.
Bob - They had to plant trees all around it after bus drivers complained of being dazzled by the sun shining off its angled glass sides.
Curly - I can see that could happen. Reassure me it was designed to look like that, and its strange liste isn't the result of a poor choice of building material. Cheesecake, for example.
Bob - Nope. That's how it's meant to look. It's not to everyone's taste, but it's a damned sight better looking than the unspeakable County coUNcil offices Tower.
Curly - Well put.
Bob - Another architectural highlight of Aylesbury is this example of an office building just across the road from the wonky one shown above. I don't know who's in this one though.
Curly - It's known locally, that is to the local people of Aylesbury, as The Ship isn't it?
Bob - Yes indeedy Curly. Not only does it look a bit like the bridge of a modern ship, it's a few doors away from a pub called The Ship, which, in-turn is just a stones throw from the canal.
Curly - Lovely.
Bob - Well, not really. It's the sort of grim industrial canal you get in towns and cities at this point. However it does get nicer out-of-town.
Curly - Who was in that film?
Bob - What film?
Curly - The Out-of-Towners?
Bob - I will kill and eat you Curly.
Curly - 'Come and have a go if you think you're not too soft and fluffy'
Bob - Speak of the Devil.
Curly - Ok. The Devil, also commonly known as Satan or Beelzebub is a-
Bob - Hold it there. I'm supposed to be the expert on the Dark Lord. Anyway, my point was this is the canal, as mentioned above.
Curly - And what a fine looking Canal it is with all those boats on it.
Bob - Barges
Curly - Narrow Boats. Ha!
Bob - You'll burn in Hell. You do know that, don't you?
Curly - Whatever. Pillock.
Bob - Beautiful clear water.
Curly - It looks like the sort of soup you send back without tasting to me.
Bob - Uh-oh, here's that tower again.
Curly - Dear Mother of Christ! It doesn't look any better up close, does it!
Bob - Not a lot. The only plus point I can think of is that there must be a cracking view from up there.
Curly - Well, you can click here for a 607k video of a roundabout taken from the top of it. I can certainly say there's a good view of the Chilterns, the local range of hills, from it.
Bob - And as landmarks go, it's unmissable. This bastard dominates the whole town, and is visible from 10 miles away on a clear day.
Curly - That's not really a good feature though, is it?
Bob - I suppose not.
Curly - Upon careful reflection, I think this building should be nuked from orbit.
Bob - Oh, one last thought. At Christmas time they leave the office lights on to form the shape of a big cross. Which is quite nice I guess.
Curly - Quite nice? That's tax payers money they're wasting, not to mention the effect of unnecessary power consumption on the environment.
Bob - You weren't so worried about the environment the other day when you were burning that rain forest.
Curly - Shit Bob, I asked you not to mention that! Git.
Bob - Speaking of trees, this looks very nice, if you're a Squirrel.
Curly - Red or grey?
Bob - Any type I guess. This is the view of the church (you can just see it on the right) from... From...
Curly - From where? Spit it out!
Bob - Aggh. From the top of the horrible multi-storey car-park next to Friars Square.
Curly - You know Bob, you're always so fast to criticise. That car-park is a fine example of the concrete-mixers art, and as-such it should be revered and respected.
Bob - Get off the moral high-ground Curly you furry-faced fool, and tell me what you make of this.
Curly - It's that big clock again, isn't it?
Bob - Yes.
Curly - Um?
Bob - You want more?
Curly - Indulge me.
Bob - Ok, it's one of Aylesbury's most enduring landmarks. It stands in the centre of the cobbled Market Square which is still the regular home to a traditional street market. It was erected in the 1880's after the middle of the medieval square was cleared of the Market House and other buildings that had encroached into it up until the 1860's.
Curly - Wow. Anything else?
Bob - Yes.
Curly - ...Go on then!
Bob - As you can see from the picture, the inhabitants of Aylesbury are simple bipeds. They go about their daily business, blissfully unaware of the unspeakable horror and impending death which awaits them all within the first few years of the 21st century.
Curly - Yeah, that should scare the shit out of them. Well done.
Bob - Hey, and here they are!
Curly - Aha. Remarkably these ones seem to be walking erect.
Bob - Perhaps they are just visiting the fine shopping centre from out of town?
Curly - Perhaps.
Bob - A fine shopping centre with fine security staff.
Curly - Yep, as seen here escorting four lovely ladies away from it.
Bob - Is it my imagination, or is the bloke on the left looking at the ass of the girl in the white top and blue jeans?
Curly - It does appear that way. I for one am shocked that someone in the security (that most noble of professions) business would do such a thing.
Bob - He's only doing it because he's behind her.
Curly - Yes? Go on?
Bob - If he was in front he'd be staring at her tits.
Curly - Respect.
Bob - Wow, there's something you don't see every day.
Curly - It's only a Gasometer.
Bob - Oh, is it? I thought it was a giant horse turd. It's just the right colour.
Curly - Perhaps you should think about another visit to the opticians.
Bob - It wouldn't do any good. Two glass eyes, you see.
Curly - Fair comment. That aside for a moment, this is actually not a vast equine do-do, but another assault on Aylesbury's skyline, in the form of a unattractive gas storage structure.
Bob - King's Head.
Curly - That sounds like an advanced sexual technique to me.
Bob - Everything does! That's what you said about 'Emperor Penguin' too.
Curly - Yeah, well... I read a lot of educational material. I like to expand my mind, without the use of recreational drugs.
Bob - I don't think looking at the dirty pictures in sex manuals counts are reading as such, Curly.
Curly - Built in 1455 at the top of Aylesbury's Market Square, The King's Head was a meeting house and coaching inn which became the headquarters of Oliver Cromwell's army during the English Civil War. It has a cobbled courtyard which has remained virtually unaltered for centuaries.
Bob - Nice change of topic. Seamless. I'm sure no one spotted that.
Curly - As you can see for this picture, the inn was 'over built' during a phase of construction which saw the market square steadily encroached upon until the 19th centuary.
Bob - Anything else to add?
Curly - The building stands between thhe Market Square and er... the road which runs between Temple and Kingsbury Squares.
Bob - You're to journalism what Harold Shipman was to Age Concern.
Curly - I don't see you doing any better, fur-ball.
Bob - You don't see me trying at all.
Curly - That's my point.
Bob - And mine.
Curly - For fucks sake. Can we just get on with this? I've got a hairdressers appointment at three.
Bob - Perm?
Curly - Yes. How did you guess?
Bob - I must be psychic.
Curly - I knew you were going to say that... etc.
Bob - We've heard a lot about Aylesbury, but what about the area it's in?
Curly - Do you mean The Vale of Aylesbury?
Bob - Is that what it's called?
Curly - Sadly so. Why spoil a nice patch of Buckinghamshire countryside by naming it after a festering bum-hole of a town that happens to be in it?
Bob - Beats me.
Curly - I was being rhetorical.
Bob - Ugh! If you have to be rhetorical can you go and do it outside?
Curly - I swear I'll hang for you.
Bob - Nah pal. If you have to hang yourself, do it for you. You know what I mean? It's like dieting.
Curly - Meanwhile, back in the real world, this is a view from the top of the pig-ugly tower in the middle of town. It was taken in September 2001 and shows the famous 'Beacon Hill' next to the Prime Minister's country home, Chequers.
Bob - Once site of an Iron-age hill fort?
Curly - What? The Prime Minister? I shouldn't think so mate. He's not that old.
Bob - ::SLAP::
Curly - I always knew you were a slapper Bob.
Bob - Hummm. Anyway, more clock?
Curly - I liked it so much I thought it deserved a closer look.
Bob - That's it, I'm buying you a sun hat. Ok, that's the history and architecture of Aylesbury covered. What about culture? We promised the good folks at home (and office, you skiving buggers) a bit of culture.
Curly - I looked long and hard, and apart from a newish Cinema, which replaced the squalid little flea-pit seen below, I couldn't find any at all. There is a Civic Centre which tries its best to draw the crowds with the Larf Larf comedy club. They do get the odd act of note here, but with the Oxford Apollo and the Wycombe Swan both within 25 miles, they don't get the stars that a town with a population of over 50,000 should draw.
Bob - Didn't Jack Dee, renowned comedian, once play at the Civic Centre?
Curly - Yes, and afterwards described Aylesbury as the sort of place where peoples foreheads keep their feet dry.
Bob - I love observational comedy.
Curly - Yeah, me too.
Bob - That's almost your lot for now. If you want to see Paul's Aylesbury, a tale of Horror short animated flash movie, then don't be a clown, use this link to go there right now!
Curly - Too fuckin' right.
Bob - Just time for a couple more nightmarish 'highlights' of Aylesbury now.
Curly - Does that make this the cinema on Elm Street?
Bob - Close enough. Cambridge Street. And this is the squalid little flea-pit mentioned above.
Curly - It doesn't look like much of a place.
Bob - How very insightful of you Curly. You're right. And it didn't look a whole lot better when it was in use. The two smaller screens each seated five people in abject torture, unable to hear the sound of the film over their own complaining buttock flesh. Very very nasty.
Curly - The new one's much better though, isn't it?
Bob - If you mean better in the sense that it's not a maggot-infested vomit-pit, then yes, it is.
Curly - I'm glad.
Bob - You look it.
Curly - Hey hey, we're the Monkeys.
Bob - And people say we monkey around.
Curly - But we're too busy singing to put anybody down.
Bob - Oh I don't know. I'm sure I could find the time.
Curly - Idiot! I was heading towards the 'street' line, where I could seamlessly slip cobbled into the mix.
Bob - What a fool I've been! Rip off my ears and call me a panda!
Curly - Now I know you're taking the piss.
Bob - It makes a nice change. Normally I just have to take your crap.
Curly - Very drool.
Bob - You mean droll.
Curly - Don't tell me what I mean!
Bob - Wipe your chin and tell the nice, patient people what this charming picture is of.
Curly - It's Temple Street, one of the last cobbled roads left in Aylesbury. That's Temple Square you can see at the end.
Bob - And relax.
Curly - Ah, as previously mentioned, this is now Aylesbury's sole cinema.
Bob - Are you saying it's only for fish?
Curly - No.
Bob - Or for the bottoms of shoes?
Curly - No.
Bob - Or for people of a bit of a 70's R&B flava persuasion?
Curly - Hell no, ho.
Bob - How do you think this comedy misunderstanding is going?
Curly - It's not bad, but I think it would work better if you were doused in petrol and juggling flaming Zippos.
Bob - That's not very funny.
Curly - Nor were you, punning your way through 'sole' gags. I mean, they don't even work in type. You could only mix them up when they're spoken. Where's the comedic trigger eh? Where's the sudden realisation of the difference between precept and concept?
Bob - I'd have had more time to work on this section if I hadn't been shagging your girlfriend.
Curly - But, Bob, I'm going out with your mum.
Bob - Touché.
Curly - Turtle.
Bob - Quick-draw McGraw.
Curly - Now there's a classic cartoon series that should be made into a feature length film.
Bob - And thus the circle is complete. This link is closed.
Curly - Ah, I recognise this.
Bob - You should do, you lived there for three and a half years.
Curly - Yeah, this is the Watermead housing development on the Buckingham side of Aylesbury. It's got a rotting disused dry ski slope and some subsidence problems.
Bob - True, but it's got some nice swans.
Curly - Sure, if you like swans.
Bob - As it happens, I do. They often launch hot-air balloons from the lake-edge and Watermead is known as Toy Town by the locals because it looks a bit like the sort of place Noddy would live, on account of the bright paint on some of the houses.
Curly - It sometimes gets called Watermead Village. I've always thought it looks a bit like that place they filmed that 60's series The Prisoner in.
Bob - Oh I know why that is.
Curly - You do? Why is it then?
Bob - It's because you're a tosser Curly.
Curly - And that, as they say in the movies, is a good note to go out on.
Bob - No they don't.
Curly - Git.
Bob - By the way, The Out-of-Towners starred Steve Martin and Goldie Horne.
Curly - Git. Again.
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