Did he really address you as 'Dear boy'?
How delightfully camp! For some reason, 'Uncle Monty' from 'Withnail and I' springs to mind...
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man/child/goblin should be old enough to know better by now,
Fri 14 Dec 2001, 4:20,
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Uncle Monty
Sounds quite like Lord Rochester from "Plunkett & Macleane" too...
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pathwalker,
Fri 14 Dec 2001, 6:24,
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