{"id":1033,"date":"2010-04-02T12:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T12:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofah.webhostingireland.ie\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T07:37:09","slug":"forging-ahead-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/forging-ahead-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging Ahead part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forging Ahead part 2<\/h2>\n

<\/strong>FORGING AHEAD by Jimmy Connerly (based on an idea by Rico)<\/strong><\/p>\n

scene 1 continued<\/strong>
\n\"tradingRodney: Del, It don’t look nothing like Gandhi! They’re just an old consignment of cheap and tacky dolls. You’ve pulled all the hair out of, daubed a tan on with a bit of boot polish and drawn a pair of glasses on!
\nGrandad: You’re out of order Del-Boy! You know nothin’ of ‘istory anyway. ‘Royal Raj
\napproved!’, you don’t know what you’re talking about!
\nDel: No! this is one of India’s finest – Look, there’s thousands of Indians live round
\nhere and Gandhi’s a hero. I can’t understand why they’ve not sold.
\nRodney: Perhaps it’s just the ‘Made in Pakistan’ labels that are putting them off then?<\/p>\n

Grandad and Rodney nod to each other.<\/p>\n

Del: No! It’s your sales patter Rodney, you’ve got to come up with a slogan.
\nGrandad: What like? Get your plastic rubbish here?
\nDel:\u00a0\u00a0Don’t get sarky Grandad! What I meant was to sell the product with a gimmick. I was thinking something more like….yes, that’s it. \u00a0Knock ’em all bandy with your right dead-handy, handy Gandhi.<\/p>\n

Del pauses for effect – Grandad and Rodney unimpressed.<\/p>\n

Rodney: Well you can try it if you like Del but I’ve washed me hands of them. All day I only managed to sell two.
\nDel: There you go, better than nothing, it’s a start.
\nGrandad: You sold two of \u00a0those?
\nRodney: Yeah, Trigger bought a couple. He thought they were Cabbage Patch dolls.
\nDel: They don’t look nothing like Cabbage Patch dolls!
\nRodney: Yeah, but it’s less of a mistake than thinking they look like Gandhi.
\nDel: You’ll never make a salesman Rodney. Just look at the shambles you made of selling those videos last month. You never sold any! Not one!!!
\nGrandad: What? Those Trading Places videos?
\nDel: Yep, them’s the ones Grandad. Trading Places with Eddie Murphy, two quid apiece.
\nGrandad: Well, I’d have thought they’d have sold Rodney. You can’t have been trying..
\nRodney: Oh, they sold alright Grandad, went like hot-cakes. Only they all got brought back…(Looks accusingly) Didn’t they Del?<\/p>

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