"Oliver,
Why not take Oliver...."

I think that was also from the book of the musical version, "Oliver" of the book "Oliver Twist" by that Dickens fellow.

"Please sir, can we twist again like we did last summer?" was cut from the original.

("Your finger or your neck this time, you ungrateful little whelp?....").


.....from back when a bunch of pocked pickets could not change poverty conditions from unfair labor and money shortages, so the poor were reduced to trying to solve it the other way around......