"Get the bastard when the opportunity arises," is a scholarly precept he shared recently with Decca Aitkenhead.
I just think: 'Get the bastard when the opportunity arises.' Never underestimate the irate Professor Ferguson".
Why is it, he would like to know, that the man on the street is heard greeting his friend as "you bastard," when the term is not positive.
This all started with the Battle of the Bastards, when she didn't tell him about the Knights of the Vale, and only brought them to bear when Jon was very nearly dead already.
He told me once that when he was a boy, prejudice against Romanians and Czechoslovakians was inculcated into Hungarian children because of territorial disputes among the nations, and that he still found it hard not to think, "Beat the bastards," when Hungary's national soccer team played against one of its neighbors.
I consider our U.S. Treasury a bunch of tight fisted bastards when it comes to the tax structure for our middle-aged and elderly citizens who deserve a big break.
I didn't trust the bastards when they just had truncheons, never mind AR-15s with shell catchers and laser beams. is for GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM These are words I do not enjoy hearing, particularly when spoken by a police officer that is charging me.
In 1976, Chappell wrote about his attitude to the opposition:... although we didn't deliberately set out to be a 'bunch of bastards' when we walked on to the field, I'd much prefer any team I captained to be described like that than as 'a nice bunch of blokes on the field.' As captain of Australia my philosophy was simple: between 11.00am and 6.00pm there was no time to be a nice guy.
To celebrate the anniversary of that disruptive brew, the San Diego super-brewery put together a four-pack of Arrogance that includes the original Arrogant Bastard (when was the last time you sat down with one of these?), the amped-up favorite Double Bastard and the once-a-year release of Lukcy Basartd Ale.
At one point in our correspondence he asserted: "I do not attack environmentalists, show me an example". It happened that on the same day he had sent an email to the green group GMWatch, in which he told them: "You are a bunch of murdering bastards". When I pointed this out to him, he told me: "I made an exception for murdering bastards..
