"I saw her walking across the set," he said, "and she's one rare person I hadn't worked with yet so I bounded up to her wanting to make a good impression and I said, 'Wow, that's a brilliant costume, you're going to be so perfect for this part.' And she just looked at me, witheringly, and said: 'What are you on about?
Since volunteers had left such a positive impression on me, I said yes.
On first impressions, I would say it could well be successful – I really liked the X6 and the N97 Lite.
"Maybe that's the impression I got," he says now.
I get the impression, I begin to say, that he has quite a history of feuds.
Anyway, as I say, the impression that McCain had won lasted about a minute, when we began flipping through the stations expecting all our fears to be validated by the dozens of commentators ready to offer their views.
Asked repeatedly how Mr. Card could have left a different impression, he said, "I have not extensively researched the genesis of mistakes".
"They got me here under the impression I'm suicidal," she said.
He said: "The impression I have had is you have one side of the argument saying this just shows the whole benefit system is rubbish, we should withdraw all benefits and all people are scroungers living off the state.
After laughing too hard at times to read her part, Ms. Munger, who sounded as if she was doing a bad Roberto Benigni impression, said, "I apologize to anyone who's Italian in the audience".
