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Portuguese Curse Lady: Steamroller
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
An elderly woman in a black headscarf is walking her small dog past a greengrocer's stall when a man in a flat cap, reading his newspaper as he goes, knocks into her. His quick apology does not save him. Sitting outside the shop while he stands over her, she smilingly describes a quiet, bearded man in a black suit who loves driving his steamroller around town, and predicts that one morning, as the man buys his paper, the driver will roll right over him, leaving him stuck flat to the roller for the whole town to see. She seals the prophecy with a curse and leaves him staring in silence.
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Say it with us
Highly quotable.
He enjoys his work, driving the steamroller all around the town, helping the people out.
Perhaps one day, while you are buying your morning newspaper, he will drive his steamroller all over you.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The second of five Portuguese Curse Lady instalments in Harry & Paul's 2012 series, following Bananas; Glued to a Chair, Car Mending Shop and Closed Laundrette came later.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Speaker 1 ?
I'm sorry.
- 00:06
Portuguese Curse Lady ?
Sorry.
- 00:07
Portuguese Curse Lady
I see a man, a quiet man with a dark beard.
- 00:26
Portuguese Curse Lady
He likes to wear a black suit to his work.
- 00:31
Portuguese Curse Lady
He enjoys his work, driving the steamroller all around the town, helping the people out.
- 00:38
Portuguese Curse Lady
Perhaps one day, while you are buying your morning newspaper, he will drive his steamroller all over you.
- 00:47
Portuguese Curse Lady
driving his steamroller all over you and your newspaper.
- 00:52
Portuguese Curse Lady
People will see you all around the town.
- 00:54
Portuguese Curse Lady
There he is, stuck on the steamroller, reading his newspaper like a very thin cartoon cart.
- 01:04
Portuguese Curse Lady
I curse you.
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