"Icelandic Vikings found America in the ninth century." "But as Oscar Wilde said, they had the good taste to lose it again." "A thousand years later, in World War II, the Americans occupied Iceland." "But they were so set on not losing it again that they kept a military base there, long after the war ended." "They moved out of the capital, though, leaving behind barracks for the benefit of homeless Icelanders." "DEVIL'S ISLAND" "There's something evil in the air!" "Come on, line up." "Tommi's going to take a family photo." "Come on, get a move on." "Let's line up here." "Come on in!" "Don't be so scared of the Americans." "Oh my gosh, they're only Yanks!" "You know a little English, dad." "Talk to them." "Do you think it's real?" "Americans don't play pretend." "Baddi, aren't you coming, honey?" "Charlie was wondering if you'd like to visit us in the States." "Come on in, lads." "On with the fun." "Shouldn't you stay here with me, old pal?" "Take it and hide it." "Hello, Tommi." "Am I bothering you?" "Hello there." "No, I've got the key right here." "You take a look around." "I've got to see to the guests." "We've got a house to live in at last." "What are those Yanks hanging around here for?" "The war finished ages ago but they're still here molesting our women." "I'm not complaining." "They're buying our land up." "And they defended us against the Germans in the war." "Even if they do steal the odd woman or two, we get their beer to drink." "It's pretty reasonable of them." "You don't gain anything by just eating and farting." "Here, Dad." "We haven't paid for the beer yet." "Just let Dick have the money." "I'm waiting for the speech." "Since it's a custom for the bride's father to say a few words that's why I'm speaking at my step-daughter Gogo's wedding." "She's going off to America, no less, as we all know." "Naturally we'll miss her." "But she's leaving us with her three wonderful children." "Baddi, Danni,who's here somewhere, and Dolly." "They might visit their mother in the big country some time." "Anyway, we hope she'll come back and pay us a visit some time here in old Camp Thule" "So let's shout hurrah for her and wish her a good long life." "Bye, Dad." "Bye,Baddi." "Where's Danni?" "Danni!" "Bye, Dolly." "Danni!" "Your mother wants to say goodbye to you." "Oh my gosh, he's always so shy." "Isn't he going a bit far?" "Fucking Yankee scum, why don't they all bugger..." "Mum, why doesn't Dad get up?" "Because he's a bloody stupid pathetic idiot!" "Stop it!" "I said sorry." "I just kicked you by accident." "Then you go off and leave the party with some Yank." "Next thing you'll probably leave your kids for America, like someone else has." "What nonsense." "Let's talk about something more fun." "What about that car you were going to buy?" "I can get a good deal on it." "A very good deal!" "Filth." "Something in the air." "Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble." "Scandalmongers and Pharisees." "The house is on fire!" "On your feet, quick!" "The house is on fire!" "I absolutely forbid people to light candles in my house!" "Use electricity!" "Candles are the devils' engines and ghosts of times past!" "Bugger off, camp scum!" "You stink of the barracks!" "Oy, Shitbag Shitbagsson!" "Your grandma drives a dustcart!" "Wipe your arse on barbed wire!" "Look at that lame turkey!" "Can't you even walk, scum?" "Cor, the jack of spades." "You'll meet a man in uniform." "Mum!" "What's wrong?" "What happened?" "The boys were chasing us." "Can't you look after the kid for ten minutes without causing a catastrophe?" "Some boys came and attacked us!" "Are you snivelling, you jerk?" "And in front of the girl too." "What are you doing here?" "Playing truant again?" "No!" "I went to school." "They just tease me and call me camp scum." "I got beaten up because I stink of the barracks." "Jerk." "Where's the new satchel I spent all night sewing?" "They set fire to it." "Called me names for having it." "It's all your fault." "Maggi!" "Lewie!" "Come on." "We've got to beat up the kids who attacked my brother." "What's going on here?" "I'll call the police." "Besides the damage those maniacs did, well brought-up children don't dare go outside for fear of those brats!" "Don't go paying those Pharisees and tax collectors a cent!" "They're just scandalmongers." "There goes my pay for the weekend in one lot." "Hey, Granddad, could I get a job at the slipway with you?" "No, there's no point, Danni." "It's sheer slavery, it makes" "you old before your time." "You can't go and work in that damn slipway." "You ought to go to America and live in style." "There's nothing to do here, you can't even be a crook." "Fat Maggi's going to prison for breaking into a fish shop." "Postman!" "Postman!" "It's a letter for Baddi, from America." "It must be the plane ticket." "Maybe I could just drive him off to the airport." "Drive him?" "In whose car?" "You never can tell." "Off you go then, lads." "And shoot." "That's right." "Dad's here in the new car!" "It's a ... hearse." "I got a very good deal on it." "What do you say to that?" "Have you got a car?" "Smart, eh?" "I'll be damned." "Bloody smart." "Oh my God." "You can stay with us for the time being, pal." "Can't I do anything for you?" "Can't I help you somehow?" "Remember when I taught you to do a Charlie Chaplin walk?" "What are you doing there, lad?" "There's one thing you need to be careful of in America." "Those damn cock-traps." "Cock-traps?" "Those damn sluts and whores." "Especially a boy as handsome as you." "They lie in wait for you, so just be careful." "I remember the way those whores used to go chasing after Tommi when he still drank." "What, did he use to drink?" "Yes, don't you reckon he was always throwing back the booze." "I had to exorcise the booze-demon from him," "I had a way of doing it." "Evil spirits drink through people like that." "Once he was lying unconscious from drink on the sofa." "You were in the cot beside him and I did a spell." "Then Puff!" "." "The booze-demon left him, but where it went I don't know." "You ought to grab the chance to learn something useful like plumbing if you can." "They're first-rate workmen, American plumbers." "Then you can do piecework on toilets and the like." "All the work you can manage." "Is plumbing sweets?" "Just remember to steer clear of those crooks in America." "Stick with proper people." "Steer clear of those crooks." "They're all sodomites and trash." "Bye." "I'll never accept the idea of driving around in a hearse." "I've told you a hundred times to keep your mouth shut." "I'm the world's strongest man." "I ain't gonna let no woman tell me what to do!" "It's the damn demon drink." "And you who used to be a famous sportsman." "But the wall just collapsed." "Why don't you start practising again instead?" "I could help you, I always coach the boys at soccer anyway." "You're a good guy, Tommi." "I know you are." "He's getting there." "But we need to practise the pivot better." "Almost 16 metres." "We'll soon make the national record." "Just think how stupid Fia is, wanting to live in this dump in among whores and slanderers." "Yes, it's all taking shape." "This is the sitting room." "Granny, why do we live in a hut?" "Why don't we move to a block of flats like this?" "They'd have to hang and burn me before I'd move into a flat." "This is the boys' room." "They have it all to themselves." "Don't they need beds?" "They're saving up to buy beds." "They do paper rounds and sell papers down in town." "We all have to chip in to afford a place like this." "Out!" "No throw!" "19 metres 45." "A world record." "Hreggvidur Bardason from Camp Thule has beaten the world shot-put record by half a metre." "Have you heard the news?" "About the world record?" "Don't you think it's great?" "You never learn." "Do you really imagine that drunken cripple could break the world record?" "They just said on the radio that he used a junior-size shot and he's been banned from competition for life." "I must get a move on." "You're always welcome here." "Thanks, Karolina,but the cops will find me here." "When does Baddi get back from the States?" "I'm not exactly sure." "Maybe they'll make him President over there." "But robbing a bank, Grjoni." "Isn't that going a bit far?" "What do you take me for?" "A knicker-snatcher?" "Don't throw your weight around here with me, God dammit." "No, Tommi,old guy." "Sorry." "Is it yours or mine, that sou'wester?" "Yes it's mine and not yours, it's mine and not your sou'wester!" "What the hell should I do with these?" "We just came to get the car." "It belongs to my grandson in America!" "This is just for the customs." "We've got to clear the car before you can collect it." "What are tax collectors and Pharisees doing meddling with Baddi's car?" "God will wreak vengeance..." "Let's not get worked up." "I'll see it gets through customs." "And Grettir, you make sure that it's waiting clean and tidy at the airport when the dear lad gets back." "Grandma!" "Uncle Baddi's coming!" "Well, here I am on Devil's Island." "Baddi dear!" "Grandma!" "This is Gislina." "Baddi, do you know how to speak American?" ""The Bad Seed, a new American movie! " Yeah!" "I saw it ages ago at Mom's place in America!" "The Wayward Bus!" "Where have I landed anyway?" "And there's not even a TV here." "Yes, Grandpa,when are you going to get a TV?" "What a crummy home this is." "Even some of the smallest barracks have got TVs." "TV?" "Is that the latest fad?" "Bloody American Forces TV." "It might be different with an Icelandic TV company but this is just a bloody fad!" "Fad?" "What bloody nonsense!" "If the boy wants a TV, then you go and buy a TV!" "You can't just call it a fad!" "It's convenient, having a TV." "Shut up!" "I'm not buying any damned TV!" "I've got a TV at Mom's place in America." "I could have it sent over if there's a problem." "It was good the way you stood up to the old bag like that!" "Fist on the table!" "That's the only thing that women understand!" "You should have given her a knuckle sandwich!" "That's the only thing that women understand." "A good knuckle sandwich!" "What I hated most about prison was being locked up at night." "I got so claustrophobic." "And the food too, the food..." "I was downtown once in America." "There was a gang fight, Indians and niggers, man." "I'd had a few beers..." "There was this Norwegian guy in Siglufjordur, with a knife..." "Shut up and listen." "Then the cops came, man." "Black Maria, handcuffs." "They were gonna take me too." "And you know where I'd have ended up?" "Alcatraz, man." "Electric chair and all that shit!" "Prison here, man!" "It's kids' stuff!" "." "Baddi?" "You haven't been inside here all the while, have you?" "Who's in the car?" "Maggi, Lewie,get in the back." "Big bad Grjoni himself is here." "It wasn't too bad in prison, better than being on a trawler." "There was a murderer in there, not counting the wardens." "Smart guy, killed his mother or something." "A great guy!" "But Siglufjordur, that was the craziest place!" "Guys with glasses getting into fights." "And the chicks there are crazy for it." "Even the farm girls." "You know, really stupid." "They were whistling through it after half a day in town." "Amaaazing!" "I've worked out it will cost me at least four times as much to pay freight and customs for Baddi's TV than to do what I always do:" "just buy what I'm told." "Baddi's here with his mates!" "We'd better move ourselves and make room for their lordships." "I don't want to see that man in my house." "Come off it, Grandma." "You remember the other day when he smashed the place up." "Well, maybe there's something good about you, friend." "You ought to say hello to Grjoni, he's been in jail." "Yes, Sigurjon is always welcome in my house." "We understand each other." "You have this, I did it myself." "You're a proper gentleman, Sigurjon." "I've always said that." "Got any mix?" "Grandma!" "Bring us some coke, pepsi and glasses?" "We haven't got coke or pepsi!" "Shit!" "Didn't I tell you I wanted to mix some drinks?" "Maybe you told your sister." "Stupid cow!" "I'll kill her!" "Send the old man out for some then!" "I can't see why the hell I'm expected to work my fingers to the bone for a bunch of drunken kids." "What took you so long?" "What got broken?" "Grandpa!" "Gimme money, honey!" "I'm a bit short right now, there hasn't been much overtime." "A hundred kronur!" "A hundred kronur!" "Couldn't you get by with a bit less?" "Go on, give the boy the money!" "Don't be stingy." "He needs cash!" "Oh well, try to have a good time on that." "Hey, old guy!" "Remember Chaplin?" "Yes, Sigurjon." "I remember Chaplin." "Hey!" "Where you going?" "To say hello to Mum." "Get a move on." "Why don't you piss off back to the camp, you scum?" "You stink of the barracks." "Some kind of problem here?" "Did they shit themselves or is it just those barracks they always stink of?" "." "Leave the stupid bastard alone." "Wake up!" "You've got to throw that lot out!" "I can't do a thing!" "It's no wonder I'm becoming a bundle of nerves, living in this lunatic asylum." "Woken up by bloody boozing in the middle of the night two or three times a week." "Almighty!" "The child's started speaking in tongues." "Do you reckon you can get some of those people out of here?" "It's the middle of the night." "Be careful with that light." "This is a timber house." "It'd be typical of that bastard to burn the bloody place down." "Not the slightest consideration for women and children here." "All he thinks about is himself." "You ought to be ashamed of yourself and have the sense to get yourself out of here." "You only cause trouble and get in the way." "It was so nice and quiet until you came back from America." "OK." "Hey, Dolly!" "Take it easy, woman." "Have you gone crazy?" "Pussy pains or something?" "OK, I've got to get out of here." "But where should you go?" "Where should I go?" "You should go the loony bin!" "Leave my lad alone!" "He hasn't done a thing!" "Leave him alone!" "He's a proper good lad!" "Out of the way!" "Darling boy, have some milk." "You're Grandma's pride." "Fucking bullshit!" "I'll kill..." "Baddi, take it easy." "Calm down now, pal." "Give in?" "No." "Give in?" "Yes!" "Lock that bloody lunatic up!" "He's crazy, you hear?" "Crazy!" "Get that bastard out of here!" "That's one hell of a lump you've got there, Danni." "It's bloody awful having to expect this every weekend." "When he starts brushing his shoes, you know what's on the cards." "It's a familiar pattern." "Just think, I've been married to that old bag for almost forty years now." "I'll be buggered if I know why." "Didn't you want to then?" "Yes and no." "To tell you the truth we never planned to." "Naturally everyone thought she was a lunatic and a witch, and there were plans to take her baby away from her." "That was Gogo, your mother." "I decided to speak up for her, so I went to see the mayor to ask if there wasn't some way she could keep the baby." "At first he ruled it out, since she was single and homeless." "Except!" "he said." "Except maybe if you marry her." "Then no one can say a thing." "Just think of it, forty years of this madness!" "This is what you get for trying to be master of your own home." "I wanted to save the expense of buying a TV." "But I end up paying enough on freight and customs to open a whole radio store." "This is what you get for taking control." "Put it down on the table, pal, and plug it in." "What's happening anyway?" "Haven't you got a transformer?" "That'll cost a packet." "Hey, you get that thing mended." "Merry Christmas!" "Merry Christmas!" "What the hell's going on here?" "You can't even get any bloody peace and quiet at Christmas." "Thanks." "Merry Christmas, Thorgunnur." "Merry Christmas." "Thanks." "You don't want to come in, do you?" "No, I just,I..." "Well, Merry Christmas then." "Change to spades." "Spades." "Change to hearts, last card." "Change to diamonds." "Out!" "You forgot to say last card." "No I didn't." "Yes you did." "Wow, that was a great one." "It was uncle Baddi's." "They've got money to burn!" "Gogo sends it from America." "No one ever gives us anything." "And they give all those beggars all sorts of fancy things!" "But us, their own kith and kin, they never give us anything!" "Are we poor, Mum?" "No, we're not poor." "We keep our money in a savings account." "But there's no need to make us suffer for that!" "What about that granddad of yours who phoned?" "Can't we squeeze some money out of him?" "I don't know." "I don't know why he wants to see me now." "I haven't seen him for ten years." "He wouldn't live in a hut." "But he's got money, I think." "If he was my granddad and had some money honey, I'd visit him." "He's paying." "I just wanted to have a talk with you about the future." "Here, have a drink,pal." "The old sod's drunk." "Sorry, pal." "You're not coming in here in that state." "You'll have to let us have some money." "Eat shit!" "What are you doing here now?" "Can't you answer?" "Why don't you answer?" "Scared, are you?" "Just piss off!" "." "You're not my granddad." "You were always too posh to have anything to do with us here in the camp." "I've only got one granddad, Tommi from Karolina's place!" "You're a creep!" "What did you turn up for now?" "Mum hoped you'd come to Diddi's funeral!" "Me too, so she'd stop crying!" "But did you come then?" "No!" "So you can piss off now!" "Stupid bloody prat!" "A bit more." "Woh there, that's great!" "Hey, Bo!" "Elvis Presley." "The only man in the world I have any respect for." "We're going to have the same bloody trouble as usual." "Every time he brushes his shoes there's a piss-up and punch-up in the offing at this house." "If you had an ounce of manhood you'd put a stop to it!" "Look at you, you creep!" "A jerk and a creep." "You ought to try to do something." "Bugger it!" "I'm not putting up with this any more!" "It stinks!" "Are you mouthing me!" "It's not my fault." "There's no peace to sleep here at night." "You can't even rest for the row that drunken bunch make." "Dad!" "Dad!" "You are the only guy in this place with any sense!" "You know the answer to the riddle then?" "Shut your mouth!" "What's the matter, Dolly baby?" "Shut your mouth!" "Lewie, I need a driver tonight." "I don't feel like driving." "Baddi, your friends are here." "We tried to get Hoddi Jull but couldn't find him anywhere." "Am I supposed to go around driving all night?" "I can't even have a decent drink then." "Can't your brother Danni drive?" "Danni?" "!" "He can't do a thing." "And never goes anywhere." "I'm starting to think he's a bit retarded." "Come on!" "Don't worry about it, Danni." "I know a barber who's also a driving instructor." "I'll book you a lesson with him first thing tomorrow!" "He's brought his drunken mates back again." "It's no wonder my nerves are shattered, living in this lunatic asylum." "Weren't there any drunks?" "No trouble?" "I think some cock-trap's trying to seduce the child." "What's up, woman?" "Don't we get coffee?" "This is my girlfriend, Grandma." "Girlfriend?" "Do you think I don't know Hveragerdur." "Shouldn't you be getting back?" "Where do you think she's going?" "Home, of course." "This is her home, Grandma." "We all know Thorgunnur who used to sing with the Tona sisters." "She's going to do a number now in honour of her neighbour, the bridegroom." "She'll do a duet with none other than Greta, the bride's mother." "Greta and Thorgunnur, take it away!" "Many a lovely story my grandma used to tell about the time she lived here and other people as well." "My grandma was always so lovely and fair and wrote me a letter with this prayer." "May your hopes come true, dear friend, and bring you joy." "You should be forever a good-hearted boy." "Even when the dream of life starts to turn out wrong, you should always try to be resolute and strong." "May all the guardian spirits light the path you take." "Give their help and blessings for my darling boy's sake." "One two, one two." "I remember in the old days, when I was young," "I often woke up to the sound of someone singing next door." "I'd like to ask a world champ and recently a father-in-law to take an old time favourite, the song about the sou'wester." "Is it yours or mine, that sou'wester?" "Is it yours or mine, that sou'wester?" "sou'wester!" "It's my privilege to introduce the last act for now." "Ludwig Hansson, or Lewie Lewie as his friends call him." "He's going to show us a few quick-handed tricks." "Lewie Lewie, take it away!" "I'd like a volunteer." "Any volunteers?" "Grettir!" "Anyone else dare?" "This lad won't take anything off me!" "Our money's being stolen!" "Come on!" "Let's get out of here before we're made destitute!" "I got the ten kronur note back!" "Who said you could carry money around in your pockets?" "Is that the ten kronur that disappeared from my purse?" "Let's go, let's go!" "I dreamt that my brother Masi came to me, pale as a ghost, snow and icicles in his beard, and he pointed to me and said:" ""Tommi, put the cap back on the bottle! "" "When that happened" " Baddi had just been born then " "I had half a bottle of booze and it's been untouched since." "Until just now, that is." "I can't stand them plotting." "What are they talking about that no one else should hear?" "They're like Pharisees and tax collectors!" "Well, what were they on about?" "I dunno." "I don't like being told to spy." "Rubbish!" "You just tell me!" "They must have been talking about something." "Or have you gone deaf on top of everything else?" "No." "They were just talking." "What about?" "About this and that." "Like what?" "Like learning to fly!" "Learning to fly!" "Danni's such a jerk that the only way he'll learn to fly is by flapping his ears!" "Grandma!" "Bring me some coffee and something to eat!" "Still here." "Is it morning?" "What?" "Are you off to work?" "On a Saturday?" "I've worked every Saturday for my whole life." "Flying also involves responsibility and risks." "It calls for precision, temperance" "and concentration." "That is our Daniel!" "So Daniel's a pilot." "I always thought Danni was just a snotty-nosed creep." "It won't do to have a pilot living in a cupboard." "He'll have to be given the telephone room for himself." "Get moving, will you!" "What a load of layabouts." "Bumping it into everything." "Never on my life." "Out of the way, out of the way." "Where does this go?" "Here, under the window." "Grettir, please be careful." "Never in my lifelong..." "Grandma!" "Hveragerdur!" "GRANDMA!" "HVERAGERDUR!" "Did you call?" "Did I call?" "Don't I get coffee and something to eat here?" "Service packed in here, has it?" "Haven't you seen the photo of your brother in the paper?" "Thanks for paying for the flying lessons." "Well, at least that money didn't go to waste." "Uncle Danni!" "Can I go in the plane with you?" "Just think of us having a pilot in the family." "Can't you turn it down a bit?" "This monkey business ain't funny no more." "I just wish our Daniel would get back home!" "Hello." "Police?" "Can you come to 13D Camp Thule and remove a few drunken wretches?" "You keep your mouth shut!" "I want to call the USA." "Charlie Brown, Kansas City." "181674921." "What a load of bullshit!" "Mom!" "Are you telling me you don't know me?" "I thought maybe you didn't know me any more." "They're killing me off out here on Treasure Island." "The weather?" "You think I phoned to talk about the weather?" "Send me two plane tickets." "I'm leaving." "For good!" "Mom." "They've wrecked my TV." "But bugger that!" "Send the fucking tickets!" "The ace of spades." "That means a death." "It's an accident, a plane crash." "And Baddi's going to America!" "We have to get him to stay!" "Baddi!" "You mustn't go." "Have you all gone crazy?" "You mustn't go to America." "Grandma was telling my fortune and the first card was the sea, then a plane crash and you..." "Can't you understand I'm going and I'm never coming back!" "Why was I called home?" "To drive us down town to buy something to cheer Baddi up." "Before the plane crash!" "Try to get a move on!" "Just try them on at least." "No!" "I don't want to see them!" "What nonsense." "We bought them from the Hvannberg Brothers." "I don't give a damn if you bought them from the bloody Everly Brothers." "They're bloody ugly trash!" "You can wear them yourself." "Is that the last bag?" "Yep!" "We're getting out of here!" "I'm never coming back!" "Another photo of Daniel in the paper." "Look!" "Brave rescue feat." "Pilot Frank Daniel Tomasson pulled off a brave feat by landing in rough conditions on the meadow beside the farm to collect a child suffering from appendicitis." "Uncle Danni said I can go with him in the plane soon!" "You bastard!" "Bastard!" "You scum!" "Karolina, in God's name,please." "Don't mention God's name here!" "God's a bastard who goes around murdering people's children." "Isn't there ever an end to it?" "Hello, Mum." "So the old man isn't coming?" "Huh?" "Isn't the old man coming?" "Charlie couldn't make it." "Of the earth thou art," "and from the earth thou shalt rise up." "I'm the devil's own son." "The devil's son." "Out of my house!" "Bugger off!" "." "You ought to start sobering up." "Your wife's gone into labour." "Hreggvidur!" "Come back!" "You're going to be a granddad!" "A granddad..." "Is it yours or mine, that sou'wester?" "Is it yours or mine, that sou'wester?" "Yes it's mine and not yours, it's mine and not your sou'wester!" "We've called the ambulance." "The baby's on its way." "Yes it's mine, not your sou'wester!" "Shut up, you bloody drunks." "What's the child's name?" "His name's Frank Daniel." "Frank Daniel, I baptize you in the name of the father, the son and the holy ghost." "Amen." "Scum and scavangers." "Spectres." "The devil's emissaries." "What evil will ghosts and visitations bring upon me now?" "Haven't I suffered enough?" "Leave my Bobo alone." "Haven't you murdered enough of my children?" "Shouldn't you be helping the crippled child instead?" "Grandma, I heard a lovely song." "The poor child had a terrible nightmare last night." "I know all about that." "Put him down on the floor." "Maybe his leg's been healed." "Try walking around." "If we slept in the living-room, Baddi and Hveragerdur could have the bedroom." "I thought they'd have to hang and burn me before the day" "I'd move into some crummy old block of flats like Toti." "I think it's great." "Just fine!" "I've divorced Charlie." "So I'll never get the chance to visit you in America?" "No, but come with me to Denmark or Norway or somewhere," "I'm going abroad, you know." "No, Grettir and me are moving into the council block, it's a decent flat." "But what about you, Baddi." "What will happen to you, honey?" "I guess I'll go to the flats with the old folks." "I've got a kid and life's cosy." "That Norwegian's here!" "I'll just make him sign a loan to pay for the air tickets." "I almost feel like I'm going to miss old Camp Thule." "I don't know if I will." "You've got the biggest place in the neighbourhood." "It's a shame they can't leave it where it is." "They still only gave me three weeks' notice." "Hard work, eh?" "It would have been child's play for Danni to bring the whole lot over in one go." "Then get a bloody move on with the TV antenna." "I can't stand hanging about!" "I respect Jim Reeves." "They call him Gentleman Jim." "He's such a gentleman!" "Well, the cab's here." "Come out for a dance with your Mom!" "Is everyone dead here?" "Remember what I told you once?" "Don't cry about Mom drinking and fussing and whoring." "It's those women who ruined us." "They ruined you, lying there in that cupboard of yours." "Once I was going to have a sleep there, but Danni boy, what a bloody smell of feet!" "You're here but what do I get?" "One-way ticket to Pelugiaville." "Didn't I?" "Look what a beautiful morning it is Bobo." "What's a slipway?" "It's down the harbour." "Where they mend the ships." "Well bye now." "English translation:" "Bernard Scudder"