lastobelus7 Feb 2004

Young sir, I must admonish you that in this constituency when a man rattles his sabre in your direction, it is not only proper but indeede requisite to rattle your owne sabre back at him. In fact, in the circumstance of such a supererogatory rattling of the sabre as we have seen here, it would not be at all out of line to slam one's pinte to the table, roar to one's feet sending the bench tumbling and the barmaids flying to the corners (hands trembling 'pon their expansive bosoms), and give the offending rattler a nick about the ear or nose.

I trust that in the future you will be more circumspect.