[Jayne Osborn]

I pride myself on my acuity. I'm not fooled by the outer psychopath. I've now seen straight through to the inner psychopath.

Dammit, Brian, get out of my head! I was going to write pretty much the same thing

Jayne

[basil ransome-davies]

Hoffnung certainly knew how to muster an audience gripped by the entertainment value of the fact that non-Anglophone people often fail to speak or write perfect English. How they roared.

[Jayne Osborn]

At least non-Anglophone people have an excuse for failing to speak or write perfect English, Bazza. What about a significant portion - I hesitate to posit a percentage - of the nation? What's theirs?

Grumpy (I'm leaving out 'old') woman

[Brian Allgar]

Yeah, like, Jayne, I mean, like, right, innit?

Basil, there was a lot more to Hoffnung than making fun of non-Anglophones, although I must confess that I have always yearned to come across a hotel where there was a French widow in every room.

[Jayne Osborn]

Here's a link for those who haven't heard the plummy-voiced Hoffnung. "French widows... affording delightful prospects" at 3½ minutes in.

Jayne