"Damn you, sir, damn you," he said.
Tonight the Cake Shop is screening God Damn Religion, Sir Richard Bishop of the Sun City Girls and a bazillion other solo albums' new film.
In 1996, VS Naipaul sold a book that Theroux had signed for him, sparking a feud between the authors and leading to Theroux's damning memoir Sir Vidia's Shadow.
He scribbled down, because it might come in handy in a novel someday, that General Dawson of Louisiana had said to Mr. Arnold of Tennessee, Damn your eyes, Sir, if you presume to call me to order, I'll cut your damnation throat from ear to ear.
Presented with the chance to expound sourly on the injustice of some marginal call against his side, it seems unlikely Big Sam will snap: "Damn your impertinence, sir. Step aside, or I shall direct my groom to give you a horsewhipping".
"She used to say, 'that damn Healey!'" says Sir Stirling.
A damning report by Sir Christopher Kelly into the bank's woes found that the wider group had badly let down its millions of members by its failure to provide "proper stewardship" of the business.
If so, that's a damning verdict on Sir Stuart Rose's legacy (the previous CEO), and those who came before him.... 11.31am BST Marc Bolland is now explaining, at some length, how his team have been beavering away to improve the M&s infrastructure.
For any progressive internationalist, and Mr Blair was once one, the most damning of all Sir John's verdicts is that the result of the invasion was not – as was claimed – to uphold the authority of the UN, but instead to undermine it.
Of all the 18th-century English painters, Thomas Gainsborough was the most inventive and original, always prepared to experiment with new ideas and techniques, and yet he complained of his contemporary Sir Joshua Reynolds, "Damn him, how various he is".
