Universally Challenged
I was on one of the first-round-losing teams of this year's University Challenge (feel the prouds). Obviously, this meant that I met the Pax Man. Now, on Uni Challenge, Newsnight and sundry other programmes, Jezza does come across somewhat as the bastard offspring of a terrier and an unexploded bomb. A man railing valiantly and aggressively against ignorance and deception, whether from slimy politicians or (perhaps equally) slimy students.

In real life though he's a petulant teenager. When having a strop with the makeup lady, who had the temerity to try and make him look presentable, his indignant huffing had a definite ring of "You can't do this, you're not my real makeup lady! This is soooo unfaaaaair..."

He did sign our lobster though.
(Concrete Cow, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 14:17, 2 replies)

Paxo
I saw him once walking down St. Giles' in Oxford, wearing a tuxedo and with his mobile phone glued to his ear. He gave me a look that was perfectly described by a Times journalist who ran into him at the opera once as "Yes, it is me. Now piss off."
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 16:20, closed)

I had to
stare him down once when he was pretending not to know where the queue started in Heffers bookshop. He got behind me. Oh yes.
(CaraVAGgio, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 16:51, closed)