Sidney James credited as playing...
Sid Plummer
- Sid Plummer: How about some food?
- Beattie Plummer: Well I could make you some beans on toast or something?
- Sid Plummer: No, nothing too elaborate, thank you.
- Wm. C. Boggs: [W.C. Boggs on fortune tellers] Fakes, that's all they are, sitting there staring in their crystal whatsitsnames.
- Sid Plummer: Balls.
- Wm. C. Boggs: I quite agree!
- Sid Plummer: [disguised as a fortune teller Sid is prognosticating on Wm. C. Boggs and Miss Withering's future] I see a marriage and one, two, three... fourteen children!
- [Sid and Beattie Plummer are discussing the mating habits of budgerigars]
- Beattie Plummer: Well, we know Joey's a he-bird...
- Sid Plummer: Cock.
- Beattie Plummer: He is! The man in the pet shop said so!
- [Miss Withering tests out Mr Boggs' new toilet seat]
- Wm. C. Boggs: Well Miss Withering, how does it feel, comfortable?
- Hortence Withering: Yes I think so Mr Boggs.
- Wm. C. Boggs: Good, good. Comfort before beauty, that's what I always say.
- Sid Plummer: It a bit big in the bowl, ain't it?
- Charles Coote: It is only two centimeters more than our last model and I'm sure we shan't fall out over that.
- Sid Plummer: It's falling in I'm worried about!
- Wm. C. Boggs: No, no! I live your overall design Mr Coote.
- Charles Coote: Oh thank you, Sir.
- Hortence Withering: May I get off now please?
- Wm. C. Boggs: Yes of course Mrs Withering, and thank you you have been most patient.
- Sid Plummer: Yes like Jove on a monument, and what a monument!
- Wm. C. Boggs: Yes, we must make sure that the catch is strong enough to support the seat.
- Sid Plummer: Do you mind if I try it?
- Wm. C. Boggs: No, go ahead.
- [Sid gets out his paper and starts moving around from side to side on the new toilet]
- Sid Plummer: Yes I don't think I could stand it for more than half an hour.
- Charles Coote: It was hardly designed for a reading room!
- Sid Plummer: Ere... Look at this very slender this pedestle... Isn't it?
- Charles Coote: It's streamlined!
- Sid Plummer: What for, wind resistance?
- Charles Coote: In any case the thickness has nothing to do whatsoever with the tensile strength.
- Wm. C. Boggs: I hope your right Mr Coote. I have had bitter experience of what happens when one of these collapses, or rather my poor wife had, God rest her soul.
- Chloe Moore: Come on Fred, I'll get you something to eat.
- Fred Moore: I could do with a bit.
- Sid Plummer: Spoken like a true man!