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типа "хоть два плюс два, хоть дважды два - всё равно будет четыре" или что-то подобное.

However, the speaker in this clip doesn't mention sport. He does mention "the mortgage" in the same breath as "two up, two down" though.

I've absolutely no idea what this chap's blabbering on about. This is why I avoid watching fiction -- no imagination!

johnstephenson Yes, I think too, that it has to do with mortgage like one of mentions this multiple play of words, but it extremely difficult to combine in russian translate, I suppose... What do you think is this possible?

I can't detect any play on words in the way he says 'two up, two down'. Could it perhaps be a reference to a mortgaged house + the wings on his biplane??? Strictly speaking, his plane's only got two wings -- one above and one below -- but the writer could be using literary licence. I really have no idea. I don't really understand what he's talking about, because he seems to switch to a new subject every few seconds.

Debtor? I don't know, but he definitely does come across as mad. Either that, or he's on hard drugs!

You could try asking Steve Munslow, who's a regular contributor to Lingvo and also a UK native. He's far more cultured than me!
http://forum.lingvo.ru/memberinfo.aspx?mid=676

Plot:
The adult Neil and Chris pass three rappers performing "West End Girls" and go to buy a classic car. The salesman (Neil Dickson) insists on presenting his full sales spiel, so Neil and Chris try to interrupt. They pay for the car in cash and drive off with Chris at the wheel. In the car, the news report on the radio tells of a hitchhiker who has hacked to death three people who have given him lifts. Chris pulls over for a female hitchhiker whom they see on the roadside, but instead an elderly man (Joss Ackland) gets in after a scream and banging is heard. The passenger, who fits the description of the killer from the radio, offers strange and witty anecdotes to questions asked before turning on the radio, which plays "Always on My Mind". During the song, the passenger, with a mad look in his eyes, unpacks several knives from his bag then suddenly asks to be let out and the Pet Shop Boys continue unharmed.

They arrive at a transport cafe where they're sat next to a traveller (Gareth Hunt). They order an inappropriate gourmet meal, but the waitress doesn't flinch. At another table a pilot (Neil Dickson, more or less reprising his lead role in Biggles: Adventures in Time), fiddles frustratedly with a hand-held computer game that says "divided by... divided by... zero" (taking lyrics from "Two divided by zero"). A voice from the traveller's briefcase asks to be let out and the traveller does so, revealing a ventriloquist's dummy. The dummy starts philosophising about the concept of time. He asks whether time can be likened to a teacup in that a teacup is no longer a teacup if no one has the intention to use it as such. To shut him up Neil puts a record on the jukebox ("Rent") and the wall of the cafe rises to reveal some dancers.

Meanwhile, the pilot is seen back in his office reading W.H. Newton-Smith's book 'A Structure of Time'. After a while he reaches a conclusion that "the dummy's a blasted existentialist". He boards his plane, determined to put an end to such daftness. Neil and Chris are driving along a country lane, when the pilot attacks. "Two Divided By Zero" is playing. The car is covered with bullet holes but the Pet Shop Boys drive on, again unharmed. The pilot's monologue piece is known to be extracted from Newton-Smith's book.

Monologue:

"But in this sense... there will be no time. If there were no be... if there were no beings capable of reason. It is the sense in which, there will be no food, were there no organisms, and no tea cups, if there were no tea drinkers. I say, what an extraordinary idea. A world with no tea cups. There could be things that look like what in our world, teacups look like, well I'll be damned! The dummy is a blasted existentialist. There could be things that could be used to drink tea from; Buckets, shells, and so on. But teacups are the things that we use to drink tea! And in that sense, we are as much a cultural object, as chess... or the Polonaise. Well... this puts things in jolly different light. Crushed ice and seaweed trimmings... of course! The thinly sliced buttered brown bread... and fingerbowls. That's it! I'll give them bloody seaweed fingerbowls, thinly sliced crushed brown ice! I'll give them bloody teacups! Buckets! And shells! Those silly buggers! Numbers must add up. Two and two is four. Right! Let's restore some bloody logic. Shells, buckets, and teacups. Silly buggers. What about mowing the lawn? Contact! What about... What about the mortgage! Two and two is either four, or two up, two down. Divided by, divided by, divided by"

Song:

"Two Divided By Zero"

(Two divided by zero, zero)
(Two divided by zero, zero, zero)

Let's not go home, we'll catch the late train
I've got enough money to pay all the way
When the postman calls, he'll deliver the letter
I've explained everything; it's better that way

(Divided by, divided by) I think they heard a rumour
(Divided by, divided by) Or someone tipped them off
(Divided by, divided by) It's better to go sooner
(Divided by, divided by) Than call it all off

We'll catch a plane to New York, and a cab going down
Cross the bridges and tunnels, straight into town
Tomorrow morning we'll be miles away
On another continent and another day

(Divided by, divided by) Let's not go home
(Divided by, divided by) Or call it a day
(Divided by, divided by) You won't be alone
(Divided by, divided by) Let's run away

(Two divided by zero, zero)
(Two divided by zero, zero, zero)
(D...d...d...d...d...divided by)
(Divided by, divided by)
(Z...z...z...z...z...zero, zero)
(Divided by)

(Turn of that noise...)

(Divided by, divided by) Someone spread a rumour
(Divided by, divided by zero, zero)
(Divided by, divided by) Better to go sooner
(Divided by, divided by) Let's run away

So why hang around for the deed to be done
You can give it all up for a place in the sun
When the postman calls we'll be miles away
On a plane to New York and another day

(Divided by, divided by) I think they heard a rumour
(Divided by, divided by) Or someone tipped them off
(Divided by, divided by) Better to go sooner
(Divided by, divided by) Than call it all off

(Divided by, divided by) Someone spread a rumour
(Divided by, divided by) And someone has to pay
(Divided by, divided by) Let's not go home
(Divided by, divided by) Let's run away
(Divided by, divided by) Let's not go home
(Divided by, divided by) Let's run away

Amor 71 Thank you. I didn't read this book, because I can't find in the public domain even summury of the book - "The Structure of Time" by W Newton-Smith. Maybe, that's the point.