(mean?) humorous streak. They taught him a very
interesting form of
English - and colourful. Instead of saying "wow, excellent!", they
convinced him that the correct thing to say was "most spannerlike!", and
that a correct form of greeting was "Hello Sailor!". There were many more
interesting variations, and his English was eventually, suffice it to say,
unusual :)
Six words: "My hovercraft is full of eels"
Tim.