Quote Originally Posted by BIG H
Newman & Badiel were awesome together:

"You see that piece of turd sitting over there in the corner, thats you thats is"
DB: Good evening and welcome to History Today.
I can tell you that no-one is more surprised than myself and Professor F.J. Lewis, when the news came through that we were to be granted another series of discussion programmes on the television.
However, I can assure all those who may have been uncertain about the decision that tonight's discussion, on the perennial topic of Romanticism and Industrialization, will be a most rigorous investigation into this always provoking issue.
Professor Lewis, I wonder if we may begin by talking about the ways in which this period saw the beginning of social disintegration.

RN: Indeed. The collapse of the extended family meant that, for literally
thousands of women, the only way of supporting themselves was to
turn to prostitution. There are several accounts of this but perhaps the
most harrowing is My Life As A Prostitute, a first-person account by a
woman who, being very very ugly and suffering from Scrofula,
could not charge very much for her services and so was compelled,
alas, to perform all sorts of degrading sexual acts with over one hundred thousand men.

DB: Well it sounds like a very important source text this, er, My Life As A Prostitute. I wonder, is there a modern edition of the publication?

RN: Yes. It's, er, Weidenfelton and Nicholson. Second Edition, price twenty-seven pounds and ninety-nine pence. That's, um, My Life As A Prostitute by your mum.

DB: I see. See a pond or a lake or a very, very large puddle?

RN: Yes.

DB: That's your bed, that is. You're on the front cover of Bedwetters Monthly.

RN: Well, what this period saw was essentially a pendulum like movement.
A swinging from Romanticism to Materialism and then back again and then violently back once more.

DB: Yes.

RN: And that's how you drive... all over the shop.