Yes, of course, Roderick Spode, founder of the Black Shorts. In addition to his innate brutality, he had the stupidity to be in love with Madeleine Basset, the one who thought a baby was born every time a fairy blew its nose.

Life was simpler then.

I thoroughly enjoy the writing of P.G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse produced some of the most remarkable sentences in the English language.