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Last Updated: 12/10/2009

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City: Nashville
07 Feb 09 Saturday 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping


HUTCHBACK

You know what, I’m being an idiot there is a Tool shop just down the road.

DR. NOSTRUM

So you go in there and say “I need a tool.”

HUTCHBACK

I need a tool, can you help me? I’m missing a tool.

DR. NOSTRUM

And he brings out a row of, er, characters, from the back of the shop. (pause) So what..

HUTCHBACK

Along with one slightly, slightly used penis.

DR. NOSTRUM

What is the..

HUTCHBACK

Oh, that was quite good.. Oh, sorry, go on.

DR. NOSTRUM

What will this tool be used for?

HUTCHBACK

I just want a tool.

DR. NOSTRUM

That will both butter my toast and unscrew a light bulb.

HUTCHBACK

And make my wife love me, again. (pause) See, now I’ve forgotten what I was going to say, you see, that’s the problem.

DR. NOSTRUM

No, it’s not a problem, cos if it’s good enough it’ll come back.

HUTCHBACK

No, it isn’t good enough, it’s actually something I wanted to say.

DR. NOSTRUM

Oh (pause) something about tools? Something about a tool that you need?

HUTCHBACK

No. If I’d have interrupted your interruption I’d have been alright.

DR. NOSTRUM

Yeah, but it can’t have been.. Nothing is important. (pause) Really.

HUTCHBACK

In the great words of Freddie Mercury.

DR. NOSTRUM

Is that what he said?

HUTCHBACK

(a near miss whilst driving) Ooooh!

DR. NOSTRUM

D’you ever have that opinion that Talk radio is just a lot of people’s opinions about stuff.

HUTCHBACK

I don’t think that’s so much an opinion as a statement of fact.

DR. NOSTRUM

It just seems that when I think about how they promote themselves and then they’ve got all these programmes relentlessly on where people call in and tell you what they think about things. It’s just, all they are is just a series of people calling up and telling you what they think about things, it’s just a waste of time.

HUTCHBACK

Mm.

DR. NOSTRUM

It’s really pointless. I mean the idea of broadcasting that... as if people calling you up and telling you what they’re thinking is worth broadcasting to the nation...

HUTCHBACK

It’s a public service.

DR. NOSTRUM

...It’s a crazy idea.

HUTCHBACK

It’s a public service.

DR. NOSTRUM

It seems that the chief quality required by the DJ is the ability to say, “I just need to hurry you up there.” (pause) Um, this is where I was driving down where I saw a guy wheeling a gurney with a body on it...

HUTCHBACK

Really

DR. NOSTRUM

...under a sheet, yeah.

HUTCHBACK

See, there you go, ‘Local Ironmongers’. You don’t see Ironmongers much anymore, do you?

DR. NOSTRUM

I don’t know how you monger iron anyway.

HUTCHBACK

(irate member of the public voice) “Stop mongering that iron, yer bastard! Didn’t anyone tell you it was rude?”

DR. NOSTRUM

I wonder what the difference between mongering iron and fish is? Not much.

HUTCHBACK

Yep

DR. NOSTRUM

It’s all in the display.

HUTCHBACK

(musing) Mongering.

DR. NOSTRUM

There aren’t many mongers. It’s not.. There’s no.. there’s no Greenmonger...

HUTCHBACK

Well no, but the.. the...

DR. NOSTRUM

They’re grocers.

HUTCHBACK

But then what does a Warmonger do?

DR. NOSTRUM

He lays all the wars out...

HUTCHBACK

Yeah, puts out a nice bit of green baize, sort of a green artificial grass, erm, price’s it up, and um, and then you get, you get your...

DR. NOSTRUM

Dictators coming in buying ‘em up.

HUTCHBACK

And then you buy it by the pound.

DR. NOSTRUM

“How much is your 1914-18?”

HUTCHBACK

“How much is the, um, Crimea? Nice bit of Crimea.”