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Why don't you take your freckled ass on a sabbatical
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The Hippopotamus

Why don't you take yourfreckled ass on a sabbatical and let a real man edit the paper?

Why don't you take your
freckled ass on a sabbatical and let a real man edit the paper?

Full Transcript

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Why don't you take your freckled ass on a sabbatical
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and let a real man edit the paper?
Duration
10 seconds
Views
44
Timestamp in Movie
00:06:20
Uploaded
Oct 30, 2025
Genres
comedy
Production
The Electric Shadow Company

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Movie Summary

Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
You may have been the great hope for British poetry - The Hippopotamus 00:07
You may have been the great hope for British poetry
When... when did you last do anything at all? - The Hippopotamus 00:05
When... when did you last do anything at all?
I have about as much need of you - The Hippopotamus 00:07
I have about as much need of you
'No use denying the fact we all feel undervalued. - The Hippopotamus 00:07
'No use denying the fact we all feel undervalued.
'To be told officially that we are off the case - The Hippopotamus 00:11
'To be told officially that we are off the case
'Paradoxically, this increases our self-esteem - The Hippopotamus 00:15
'Paradoxically, this increases our self-esteem
'Finding myself at leisure, - The Hippopotamus 00:12
'Finding myself at leisure,
'It was unlikely a poem would come - The Hippopotamus 00:08
'It was unlikely a poem would come
'S0, I listed, as is my custom, - The Hippopotamus 00:09
'S0, I listed, as is my custom,
'The rare words annoy the punter, - The Hippopotamus 00:08
'The rare words annoy the punter,
'A painter has oils, acrylics and pastels. - The Hippopotamus 00:06
'A painter has oils, acrylics and pastels.
'A musician has entire machines - The Hippopotamus 00:08
'A musician has entire machines
You may not remember me. - The Hippopotamus 00:05
You may not remember me.
Jane Swann. One of the Berkshire Swanns? - The Hippopotamus 00:06
Jane Swann. One of the Berkshire Swanns?
Cast your mind back to a small font, a baby and a rising poet. - The Hippopotamus 00:08
Cast your mind back to a small font, a baby and a rising poe...
Where the last of the semi-famous get assholed. - The Hippopotamus 00:05
Where the last of the semi-famous get assholed.
Sooth. You see before you a recently fired man. - The Hippopotamus 00:05
Sooth. You see before you a recently fired man.
'Jane's home lived up to my ripest expectations. - The Hippopotamus 00:06
'Jane's home lived up to my ripest expectations.
'As degrading a cocktail of over-priced cliches - The Hippopotamus 00:07
'As degrading a cocktail of over-priced cliches
'Any given surface - The Hippopotamus 00:14
'Any given surface