/me wonders if Pumpy fits in that description.
Despite our intense mutual loathing (primarily caused by his seeming inability to stay in touch), I’m sure that Frumpy gets the “you know who you are” reference.
Robert, Tom the Rex, Rufus Parsons: The triumvirate of most gentle (and learned) men I have ever had the privilege to have interacted with.
Sure, he can’t spell for shite, he has trouble with his eyelashes, hiz grammer sumtime need corecting, and he has no appreciation of the literary convention of “the ellipsis”, but - apart from literacy skills - there are scant few others with whom I would rather sit down and enjoy a cold beer as I listened to him strum some classical tunes.
Nicely constructed sentence, Gorny. A semi-colon may have been beneficial, but - good lad…!