Where is he???? I told you, Amos! He's behind the damn couch! Well, at least he was there until we discovered him. He's now in the ready room being dusted off, steam-cleaned, de-loused, immunized, and debriefed. In that order. We should be able to wrap this thing up by tomorrow morning, I think, if the eyebrow repairs hold up. Seems there were some moths back there...

"How do you differentiate between friends, then, and the goofballs who carp and criticize in a desperate effort to gain some imaginary personal advantage?"

Huh? I don't find it hard to do that at all. Do you? Look, man, I just consult the official program, whaddya think??? It's a snap. Goofballs are on the left side of the page, friends on the right, goofballs are in paisley italicised font, friends are in rich royal blue bolded script.

Geez, I think those longrunning political threads you spawned have gotten to your brain, old buddy, or you wouldn't ask me such bloody obvious questions.