There's a lot of flu bugs floating around. I think it is commendable that he thought enough of his fellow senators to keep his diseases to himself. I don't know what he had, but I suspect it was Montezuma's Revenge. (Mexico is the only country in th world where the expression Royal Flush has nothing to do with playing cards.)

Mum waded though Red's excitement with a tea-towel in one hand and a Pimm's in the other. Dad likes them strong, but cucumberless.

And Bruno's name is Bienenfeld meaning that I would place him as what are in Cleveland anyway called Donau Schwaben i.e., outland Germans living in SE Europe …

Well, you ain't got much longer to laugh. I'm coming, and I'm gonna put one in your dirty hide for every lying crack that you made about me, see?