Steve rescued her from her minor job dissatisfaction hell, and bought her the Rovers.
Last night's seven-party debate, apparently held in a minor hall of Dis, the capital city of Hell, was a case in point.
And he called Emily Blunt's character, a perpetually dieting minion from hell, "a minor tour de force of smiling hostility".
The animation director Jack Stokes modestly said of his groundbreaking film, Yellow Submarine (1968), that it was "a minor miracle or a hell of a lot of good luck".
He was cast in a minor role in From Hell to Texas and found it impossible to take the intricate direction Hathaway was determined to give him.
Drawing from the language of gangsterism, sports, accountancy and marketing (as one commentator put it, the White House tapes read like the proceedings of a minor advertising agency in hell), the most secretive and manipulative White House of modern times gave the world a unique insight into the rugged vernacular of power, from which more sculpted rhetoric was never to recover.
But the impression throughout is of an author having a grand old time: witness a minor-circle-of-hell-league nightclub called Life ("After a few drinks Life won't seem so bad"), a co-VP called Death, and an extremely dubious business venture called Myhotswaitress.com (well worth a visit).
It seemed fitting that Rocker was "sent down" (to the minors or the reavers from hell) after he verbally threatened the reporter who had originally given him his megaphone.
"We had a minor scrape on the highway to hell," admits banjo man Reverend Don Wayne Reno.
Hell, it even belongs on minor league baseball jerseys, and at its own festival.
