Doctor Syn (1937)
George Merritt: Mipps the Coffin Maker
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Quotes
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Mipps the Coffin Maker : Where there's sailors, there's trade!
Mrs. Waggetts, Pub Owner : And trouble!
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Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N. : What's this?
Mrs. Waggetts, Pub Owner : Tar for the nets.
Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N. : And this?
Mrs. Waggetts, Pub Owner : White varnish for the oars and fancy pieces.
Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N. : Are you sure it isn't white Hollands gin? Draw me a glass of it?
Mipps the Coffin Maker : Draw you a glass of white varnish?
Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N. : You heard me. Give him a glass.
Collyer's Bo'sun : Don't smell like white varnish.
Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N. : And it doesn't look like white varnish.
Mrs. Waggetts, Pub Owner : [laughing] But it *is* white varnish.
Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N. : Why couldn't you tell me?
Capt. Howard Collyer, R.N. : [sarcastically] Try a drop o' tar now, captain?
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Mipps the Coffin Maker : We did that neat Mrs Waggetts, very neat.
Mrs. Waggetts, Pub Owner : You're a comfort to me Mr Mipps, you are indeed.
Mipps the Coffin Maker : Not o' that now, none o' that. A man in the death trade should keep single. He sees enough misery without marryin'.