As one senior civil servant commented to me, "even if God and the Queen came out for the Tories, it won't stop this being Labour's week".
An unverified blog at the time quoted a civil servant commenting: "The Met Office seasonal outlook for the period November to January is showing no clear signals for the winter".
When he was fourteen months old, a servant commented that Ernest "runs around like a weasel.
He has often thumbed his nose at convention, refusing to move into the Governor's Mansion and irritating civil servants with comments that suggested they had participated in bid rigging.
"Serve the Servants" contains comments about Cobain's life, both as a child and as an adult.
"As far as I can see, there has been no change," said U San Shwe, a retired civil servant whose comments typify the skepticism heard frequently in Myanmar.
He acknowledged he had "blurred the boundaries" when he was a civil servant by commenting on political matters.
Taking the waters is described in Charles Dickens' novel The Pickwick Papers in which Pickwick's servant, Sam Weller, comments that the water has "a very strong flavour o' warm flat irons".
Because of the row over a senior civil servant likening Brown to Stalin, some telling comment last week by former Bank of England governor Lord George passed virtually unnoticed.
There, Li prepares a great feast for them, but when food is brought out for any servants that might have accompanied them, Zhou comments that they had come on foot without help.
