Lord Tytos was a gentler sort of lion, however, so Lady Tarbeck won a few more years for her muttonheaded lord, and Stafford wed and bred and blundered on till Oxcross.

His films since then have included "Five Corners," "Tapeheads," "Miss Firecracker," "Erik the Viking," "Bull Durham" (as a muttonheaded ballplayer, his breakthrough performance), "Jacob's Ladder" and, most recently, "The Player."

And more than a muttonheaded flat-foot wot never got no promotion, and never would, not if he lived to be as old as wot I am, which 'e won't becos 'e eats too much - unless it ain't fat, but dropsy 'e's got.'