1. 'Shoes. The boringest
purchase. If only Sophie was here.
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2. 'We could horse around and
spray suede protector about.
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3. 'Come on, Mark, it's Sophie and Jeff
now. That's fine, it's not Armageddon.
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4. 'Relax. Live a little.
Could get brown brogues.
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5. 'Best stick to black. Don't
want to go completely mental.'
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6. Can I help you? -Oh. Yeah.
Thanks. I'm after some shoes.
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7. I did think brown
brogues, but I'd look like a spiv.
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8. 'Spiv? Of course, because this is
1942(!) Come on, she's only a nice girl.'
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9. Say which ones, cos one time I
recommended shoes, the person tried them on
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11. but then they bought
them and I felt bad.
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12. Sorry, you didn't need to
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13. I was thinking black, size eight.
But broad. I have a broad foot.
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14. Yeah? Doesn't feel so broad.
But you know how broad they are!
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15. No, I just thought they were broad.
'Keep feeling my foot. Please.'
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17. I'd say it was about a fifth of a
cubit, or one hand. Your foot's a hand.
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18. Sorry, that's the geekiest joke.
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19. No, I thought it was funny.
I like Ancient Egypt, too.
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21. 'Knows about cubits, not comfortable
in her own skin. She's one of me! '
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22. So, Hans
- old issue, I know, but the band name.
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23. It's a statement, but what
does the statement... mean?
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24. There you go. Free munchies.
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25. - Did you just nick this?
- Course. They should pay me to eat this shit.
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26. Free chocco. Mm, tasty. -The
secret ingredient is crime.
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27. So, Jez, you know Pete Preston's
outfit, the Executioner's Bong?
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28. - Yeah, bunch of wankers.
- Exactly.
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29. They want me to front
them for a couple of gigs.
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30. What? -I'm gonna have to
quit Coming Up For Blair.
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31. You can't be in two bands
- Tom Petty tried that. Nearly killed him.
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32. What about me? And you owe me for the
computery thing we don't know how to work.
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33. Maybe I can get you
in on... maracas.
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34. I won't be Bez. I wanna
be in there on merit.
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35. You won't make it on merit. -Just get
me in. Then we'll see about merit.
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36. 'It's cool. I'm not a stalker.
I thank shop girls with chocolates.
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37. 'I just happened to pop by a few days later to
let her know I've broken them in. That's my line.'
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38. - Excuse me. - Yes, sir? -I'm
looking for April. I'm a friend and...
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39. You're a friend of April's?
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40. No, but obviously
April's at university now.
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41. Of course. Of course she is. We
were talking about that. OK, thanks.
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42. 'Do a Columbo. Do a Columbo.'
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43. Just... remind me, which
university has April gone to?
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44. Dartmouth.
- Dartmouth. Of course. Dartmouth. Thanks.
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45. 'Good old Columbo. Just the one
technique, but shits on Quincy.'
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46. Yup, going on tour, baby. The
important thing is... I'm not Bez.
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47. Excellent, baby! What's a bez?
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48. Oh, er, Bez in American...
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49. He's like... You know Flavor
Flav from Public Enemy? -No.
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50. Well, he's like him.
But with maracas.
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51. Right. Hey, Jez is going on
a nationwide music tour!
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52. Three dates across the south coast,
100 quid a gig. You do the math.
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53. So you're all piling round in a van?
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54. Well, I'll be going by National
Express. You can't make a van bigger than it is.
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55. No matter how much I or anyone else
may wish it were a bit... bigger.
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56. You do the math. - S.
Math-s. Where are you going?
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57. All the biggies. Southampton,
Dartmouth, Plymouth.
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58. I wish I wasn't working. I'd
love to see the English Riviera.
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59. - Dartmouth?
- The very student union where we met.
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60. Cool. 'This isn't stalking.
I want to support Jez.'
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61. - So, they good, this band?
- Bunch of wankers.
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62. I'd love to come, then.
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63. I bet you don't get these
in the van. Air on or off.
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64. How long does it take again?
- Just eight and three-quarter hours.
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65. Wicked. Thank God we're not in the van. -I
can't believe we're going back to Dartie.
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66. - There's no quim likes to party
- Like the quim down in Dartie
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67. Those were the days. -Did you
ever appeal about your degree mark?
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68. Who cares about that shit? I didn't go to
university to get a degree. -No. Of course.
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69. No use regretting the past. I
wish I'd done Ancient History...
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70. I thought you did. -I did Business
Studies, Jeremy, for three years.
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71. - And I talked to you about it daily.
- Right.
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72. 'I could say it's all ancient
history now. He wouldn't like it.'
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73. Well, it's all ancient history now.
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74. 'Ha! I'm gonna razz those fuckers.'
Mark, look, it's Super Hans and the band.
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75. - 'You've reached the voicemail of...
- Super Hans. 'Please leave a message.'
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76. That guy. I love that
guy. That is so funny.
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77. 'You won't be laughing so hard when
the loan repayments kick in, buddy.
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78. 'I suppose you can always defer.
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79. 'Showtime. "Just swinging through town, thought
I'd check what's hot at the Arts Fac."
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80. 'After she's thrown up, we can go
for a pizza. I think that's her! '
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H... Hello? Hi. Sorry. Hello?
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82. 'Shit! Where's she going?
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83. 'I'm not licensed to be in this
far. I'm following her! Shit!
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84. 'What am I gonna do next, take secret photos
and lie masturbating in my own filth? '
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85. Sorry, do I recognise you?
- Er, the... shoe shop?
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86. Black brogues. I thought I was broad-footed,
you felt otherwise.
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88. Sorry, you're obviously a student.
Are you doing history too? -Er... yeah.
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89. - Wow. Who's your tutor?
- Professor...
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90. MacLeish. -You're here for
the tutorial. Sorry. I'm a bit slow.
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91. They'll soon knock that out of me. Along with
any individuality. Not that I've got any.
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93. After you.
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94. 'Why am I walking into the jaws of death?
'They're best avoided, that's common knowledge.'
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95. Yes. So. Here we are.
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down the vista of history.
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97. There is no new history,
only new historians. Ha, ha.
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98. Were you here last week?
- Me?
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99. 'This is my moment of madness,
my Clapham Common.'
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100. Er, no. I'm... I'm new. I'm mature.
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101. I went to Coventry for a week in error.
Lovely. Destroyed in the war. Obviously.
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102. There was a mix-up. I'm not on
the forms but I'm... here now.
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103. Well, obviously. Fine.
What did you make of it?
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104. 'Is that how easy it is to steal some education?
'Bloody hell! Who's in charge?
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105. 'The world's just people going into
rooms and saying things? It's all a swizzle? '
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were contradictions.
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Galilee was culturally Roman.
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108. Not that old fallacy?
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109. The Romans didn't station a legion in
Galilee till, what, 130 AD? -Yes, indeed.
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110. But I suppose all research funding
leads to Rome. -What was your name again?
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111. Corrigan. Mark Corrigan.
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112. 'I'm doing it, Dad. I'm studying Ancient
History and there's not a thing you can do! '
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113. 'I'll give them a hand. Not
that I'm a roadie. I'm just helping out.
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114. 'I bet Ringo had to carry stuff.
Not that I'm anything like Ringo.'
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115. Are you in Executioner's
Bong? -I sure am, little lady.
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116. - Would you sign this?
- Fuck, yeah.
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117. Jez, when you've finished that,
could you get us six lattes?
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118. That is so Pete.
Fuck off, Pete.
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119. It's just a... little thing we have going.
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120. You've seen Spinal Tap, yeah?
- Good luck with this week's reading.
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121. If you're plagiarising, don't do it from a book
I've written. It's almost bound to ring a bell.
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122. Mark, April, hold on.
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123. I'm having a gathering tonight for potential
contributors to my folly, Rhombus Magazine.
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124. Could you two make it?
- Yeah. -Sure.
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125. 'I'm being ushered
into the inner ring.
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126. 'I bet they make jokes about the Atkins diet and
do prank calls to Gore Vidal in Esperanto.'
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127. So, what do you play in the Bong?
- Me? Er, everything. I do everything.
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128. I can't do it all at once
so I get them to help.
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129. Sometimes at a gig I'll just
cool it with the maracas.
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130. Oh, yeah, like Bez. -No, not
like Bez. Nothing like fucking Bez.
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131. Can I ask your advice? I really wanna set
up a label for bands that can't get a deal...
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132. 'Maybe she'll suck me off
after the gig. What about Nancy?
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133. 'What am I gonna do when
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134. capitalist agendas that make
everyone sound basically the same.
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135. Sorry, I'd better just say
now... I've got a girlfriend.
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136. Wow! This is great. But aren't
you gonna max out on your loan?
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137. Fuck it. Get another
one. You can always defer.
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138. - To university.
- To university.
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139. 'She is so lovely and
doesn't even realise.
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140. 'No-one's ever told her. I'll tell her.
No. 'If she realises, I'm finished.'
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141. Mark. You're here. You
didn't say. You're here.
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142. So, how do you two know each other? -Let's not
talk that shit. "This is what I do, I'm from here."
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143. We're all people, after
all. With hands and feet.
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144. We met in our tutorial.
- You were in a tutorial?
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145. I may party hard, but I
do go to the odd tutorial.
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146. - What?
- You have to, if you do a history degree.
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147. You're doing a history degree?
- That's right, Jeremy.
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148. He's in a band. His
hearing's gone, all the gigs.
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149. How long are you gonna
be here? Three years?
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150. That's how long
undergraduate degrees are.
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151. - So you're not coming back?
- Nope.
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152. So... what shall I
do? Rent out your room?
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153. Of course. We've been over this.
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154. - Have we? - That's right, Jeremy.
- But I... I don't understand.
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155. Let me get you a drink. I'll
explain everything all over again.
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156. You're stalking her? -No! It's
a passionate, romantic gesture.
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157. Right. I won't say a word. Good luck
with the stalking. -I'm not stalking her.
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158. Jeremy, can I have a word? -Yeah,
sure, Pete.
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159. If it's about the amp, I'd be happy to
pay for any damage. -It's Super Hans.
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160. He's nicked some booze and stolen
a maraca. -I can work with just one.
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161. No, we need a kind of front-man.
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162. Someone to hit a few keys on the
sequencer, make a bit of a show.
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163. Would you feel weird about bumping
Super Hans? -No. I mean, yeah. But...
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164. No. Yes, initially. But I've thought
about it and... no, I'd feel fine.
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165. All right. Wicked.
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166. 'How cheap dare I go?
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167. 'Professor MacLeish said "party". It'll
get jumbled in the common lot.
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168. 'I could break the L2.99
barrier. There be monsters.
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169. 'I'll dump this and drink the communal
lager. I think I know who's winning.'
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170. Can you ask Mr Rashid if
he's got anything cheaper?
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172. Mark, they've moved the bus stop.
Our bloody bus stop's been moved.
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173. Everything changes. Five years
ago, I'd have cut off my right leg
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174. just to speak to Professor
MacLeish, now I'm going to his party.
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175. And I'm headlining a band. -Scuse me,
friend, can I see what you've got in your pocket?
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176. Why? I'm not a student.
I am a real person.
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177. Mr Rashid, it's us!
Remember? The El Dude brothers.
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178. You gave us that out-of-date hummus.
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179. Jez was really ill and
we laughed about it.
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180. Who the hell put that there?
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181. 'I can't believe
he called the police! '
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182. I've gotta get out. I'm meant to
be on stage any fucking minute.
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183. What the hell were you
thinking? Why didn't you just pay for it?
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184. They should pay us to eat that crap. Stealing
things just makes everything very cheap.
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185. Plus, you know how I feel about
capitalism. -Yes. Confused.
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186. I'm supposed to be
on stage right now.
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187. I was wondering. Maybe you could,
somehow... take the rap for me.
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188. We could say I was in your
thrall. Like Hindley.
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189. No way. Right now, April's probably
getting chatted up by some student
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190. who's realised she's got the
magical combo of beauty and low self-esteem.
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191. OK. Here's the plan.
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192. Good cop, bad cop. I say I'm ill, Mr
Rashid comes in, all sympathetic.
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193. You stand there, hit him -
gently but firmly - until he stops...
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194. not moving, but resisting.
We exit posthaste. Yeah?
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195. We murder Mr Rashid? What is it with
you and stealing and murdering today?
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196. You're mad on it.
- Great. Let's just do it.
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197. No! There's procedures. We need to go
through the proper channels. All right!
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198. Since you're so set on a life of crime,
no point in adding criminal damage as well.
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199. Great. Cheer up, mate. We're outlaws. Like
Bonnie and Clyde, Butch and Sundance.
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200. I'll leave a tenner and a note.
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201. I don't need a ticket, I'm
in the band. I got waylaid.
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202. I'm not with the
shit-munchers. Do I look like a civilian?
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203. You are gonna be so
embarrassed in about five minutes.
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204. 'Scuse me! Sorry. I'm in the
band. I'm in the band. 'Scuse me.
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205. I need to get to the
stage. I'm in the... band.
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206. 'Shit! I was only half an hour
late and he's already back in the band.'
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207. Oi! Lads! I'm here!
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208. It's me! I say! Lads! Pete! -This
faker said he was in the band.
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209. I'm in the band all right. I've
just crossed the fourth wall.
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210. 'Crowd-pleaser! '
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211. Let's do itl Let's have itl
Let's have some more of it.
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212. Look, I'm in the band. You
evict me, that's hilarious.
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213. That's not hilarious. You've got my
bollock. You're pulling on my bollock.
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214. I was, like, "Yeah, the book's based on good source material
- Asterix The Gaul!"
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215. So, Mark, do you fancy doing
a little piece for Rhombus?
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out of Simon Schama. -Love to.
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217. I could lay into his...
accessible, interesting take on things.
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218. 'To enter the
elite, I must shit on my heroes.'
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219. It could be a regular column. Slaying
the middlebrow sacred cows.
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220. 'I can pen insights from the
flat. The Zorro of academia.
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221. "'Who is that masked intellectual who
pricks our pomposity?" Ooh, rough.
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222. 'Miscalculated. Dinner party. 'Still,
if I drink it all, no-one need know.'
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223. Special bottle? -Just... mine. I
like to know how much I've drunk.
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224. - Are you driving?
- No, it's in case anything happens.
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225. 'He thinks I mean date rape.'
Not date rape. Other things.
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226. April, come and join us. We're
talking about my column.
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227. Cheers, but I'm just gonna
read Deidre's play.
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228. Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf's search
for a lost Sappho manuscript on Lesbos.
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229. Do you think there could
there be a subtext(?) -Great!
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230. 'Plays, wine, Lesbos... I've
arrived! Just don't mention Bravo Two Zero.'
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231. - Hello.
- Hello.
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232. Do I know you? -No, I'm a friend of Mark's
and I just had my dreams smashed
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electro-dub outfit in Britain.
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234. 'Bollocks. He shouldn't be here.
There's limited room in the inner ring.
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235. 'That's why it's the inner ring.'
- So, you all look pretty happy...
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236. being students. Well, I've got news
for you. The shit-storm is coming.
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237. That's the real world out there and
let me tell you, baby, it is fucked.
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238. Is that what Dr Chomsky and Michael
Moore told you? In lieu of a degree.
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239. I've got a degree,
my friend, oh, yeah.
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240. I was here in the glory years - mid-'90s.
Britpop was kicking off.
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241. Four Weddings had just come out.
It was mental. -Four Weddings?
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242. It's a... film, Alasdair. Very
popular at the time. About weddings.
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243. You have seen Four Weddings. You make
out you're this oh-so-clever professor
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244. who hasn't got time to watch Four Weddings or Ghostbusters
like the rest of us? I'm not buying it.
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245. I spend my free time reading, rather
than watching Ghostbusters!
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246. What is the problem with Ghostbusters? "Oh, look
how many books I've got. I must be clever."
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247. Yeah? Well, let's have a look at some of these
books, see how really great they are.
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- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.
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249. "The look on her face was
one of disappointment."
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250. That's good, is it? What's good about
that? -I don't actually care for Dreiser.
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251. Oh, I see. These are just rows
of books you don't really like.
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252. Do you sit around not reading
them? -I think you've said enough.
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253. Jez, why don't you go and
lie in the recovery position?
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254. This is all bollocks. You don't belong
here with the pointy-heads. Tell them.
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hard-working mature student?
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256. He's not a mature student.
He's a loan manager.
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257. He lives with me and he eats
ready meals and we play Guess the Revels
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258. and watch Men In Black on our
massive telly and have a fucking good time.
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259. Loan manager? -I manage my...
student loan. I manage... on it.
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260. April, listen, I was thinking, I should
really go. D'you want to go now? With me?
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261. We're gonna smoke a joint and
read Logue's Homer. You can play Helen.
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262. Or I've got six quid.
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263. Let's get two bottles of Thunderbird
and see who can drink theirs fastest.
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264. So, which one's your dorm?
- Kaiser Soze Hall. D'you know it?
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265. Horribly ugly. It's
for mature students.
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266. They lock us away in case we infect you
with our diligence and lust for knowledge.
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267. 'OK. Dangerously close to getting
what I want. Don't think about Sophie.'
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268. Love your room.
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269. Thanks. The basic
undergraduate lunge for individuality.
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270. I've not even seen Betty Blue. Have you?
- Yeah. Great sex-and-suicide flick.
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271. Turned a generation of men
onto girls with mental illness. -OK.
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272. 'Perfect. The kind of scenario that
used to terrify me that now I can handle.
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273. 'Just... lean in or pull her
towards... me and just... simply...
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274. 'This is my chance! And
I'm doing... nothing.
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275. 'I am now, this instant,
missing my chance.'
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277. Er... yeah. OK. Right.
I might... go then.
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- OK. Cool. See you.
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myself pure for Sophie.
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280. 'Like nuns do for Christ.
I'm not sleeping with him.
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281. ' Come on. She can only
hurt me emotionally.'
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to... make the move.
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if I make the move now,
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moment has sort of... gone,
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285. you're not gonna back away or look
disgusted or anything, are you?
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286. Great. Thanks.
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- OK.
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Sorry to call so late.
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289. I just wanted to remind you to print the
proposal docs for the big meet tomorrow at 5pm.
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290. Anyway, I'm in Dartmouth, with
a lovely young student girl.
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291. I just made the move, which went brilliantly. Now
we're probably gonna go to bed. See you tomorrow. Bye. >
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293. Don't get me wrong. I like
you. I think I really like you.
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294. And I really like you. -It's just...
it's late. I've had a few wines.
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295. I could hardly focus on the bog roll.
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296. Let's do this another
night. -Another night?
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297. 'Fine. If I hadn't
lied about everything.'
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298. No, it's got to be... It should be tonight.
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299. But we've both got to get up
early. It's Babylon at nine.
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300. Let's... tonight. I really feel
that the mood's... right tonight.
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301. We've got three more years.
Let's just... lie here and cuddle.
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302. Oh. Right. Nice cuddle.
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304. Yes, I'm sorry to
have called you so late.
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in how things were going for me.
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307. See you after the lecture.
- Yeah. See you after the lecture.
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her recoil at my scrotal scar.'
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309. She would've done it. Given another
night or two. She would have.
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310. Yeah. So, another notch
on the bedpost... sort of.
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311. 'This is OK. It's just a moment
that'll haunt me forever.'
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