Seagoon - having just drunk vast quantities of Loch Ness - I feel faint

Grytpyppe-Thynne - here, Neddy, drink this glass of water!!

gets me every time...

Someone's just thrown a batter pudding at me!

Spike is Irish, by inclination and self proclaimation, if not birth. Read the memoirs, the Irishness comes over very strongly, esp in presence of whiskey/Catholic priests. And the sheer bloody mindedness of the man to keep doing what he does.

LTS