From Blake Edwards and Frank Waldman's The Return of the Pink Panther
(1975):
(A beggar sits in front of a bank playing an accordian. There is a monkey
sitting next to him as Inspector Clouseau walks up.)
Clouseau (to beggar): Do you have a license?
Beggar: What?
Clouseau: City ordinance 147-B prohibits the playing of any musical
instrument in a public place for the purpose of commercial enterprise
without a proper license.
Beggar: I don't understand.
Clouseau: It is against the leu (law) for you to play your musical
instrument. Beggar: Leu?
Clouseau: What?
Beggar: You say, it's against the leu?
Clouseau: Yes. Unless you have a proper license.
Beggar: What kind of license?
Clouseau: A license that permits the playing of any musical instrument in a
public place for the purpose of commercial enterprise.
Beggar: Commercial enterprise?
Clouseau: Yes. You play that thing and people give you the muhnay.
Beggar: People give the monkey the money.
Clouseau: It is the same.
Beggar: Oh, no. I am a musician and the monkey is a businessman. He doesn't
tell me what to play, and I don't tell him what to do with his money. One
day I came home and I found him sitting in my living room. I let him stay,
but he pays for his own room and board.
Clouseau: Then the minkey's (monkey's) breaking the leu.
Beggar: But he doesn't play any musical instrument.
Clouseau: City ordinance 132-R prohibits the begging.
Beggar: How do you know so much about city ordinances?
Clouseau: What sort of stupid question is that? Are you blind?
Beggar: Yes.
Mvh. / Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld
https://torgeirfjeld.com/
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