Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours.

The debate must be maintained until the third reading of the corn bill had been agreed to by the house of lords. What a situation! […] Power, place, patronage might reward those who upheld the minister; they might even at this conjuncture become ‘janissaries’ without ever having been ‘renegades’.

Nigger (Male) Orsotriaena medus moira Waterhouse and Lyell. 1914.

Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.