We didn't order those new ladders either. I issued them to the men
yesterday and they were absolutely thrilled, isn't that right, men?
Yes, sir. First solid fuel we've had since we burnt the cat!
-- George and Baldrick : Captain Cook
Related:
A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow. The time
had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had
come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to
catching instructions on the wing....
