Gentle fun is made of Watson, a bumbler with old-school chums called Stinky and the Major.
"I don't much like Barney either to be honest, but at least it doesn't make me sound like I've got lots of chums called Rupert and Carstairs".
If that sounds like an exaggeration, consider this: Almost ten years later to the day Paul and his new pal John -- together with two other chums called George and Ringo, were performing live to 400 MILLION members of the global village on the world's first-ever satellite TV hook-up.
But if that's rich, it's almost hilarious to see Rogers's chums calling the British planning system democratic.
As JP – his Stowe chums call him JPaedo, but be careful what you tweet – Jack Whitehall is in danger of making posh boys sympathetic and Josie's attempts to make the housemates believe she hasn't been kicked off the course were becoming more and more poignant.
Whereas Al - as his close chums apparently called him - shares with the great Pepys a nose for absurdity, for gossip and intrigue, for high politics and trivia, but crucially a candid willingness to make a fool of himself in print.
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Further texture comes from topical storylines (NSA surveillance and the ethics of a Google-like giant called Chum Hum); an understated willingness to address romance for the over-50s; and a constant churn of superstar supporting turns from the likes of Jeffery Tambor, Nathan Lane, Oliver Platt, Ed Asner and Matthew Perry.
But the decision succumbed in part to the "team of rivals" logic underlying the selection of Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose chum James Carville had called Richardson a "Judas" for the Obama endorsement.
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