Forde proved his point across the Bank Holiday weekend, tweeting snaps of such Partridgean gems as Blackburn's clarfication that his son Simon was NOT named after Simon Bates.

As I was wearing no badges of rank I was mistaken for an other rank.

“I'm suing the Pacific Gas and Electric Company,” he explained, “for overcharging me on the service. Those rinky-dinks tacked an extra sixteen dollars on my bill.

I get chills every time I hear that song.