It's a sequence that seems to work pretty well for all sorts of professional criminals from all walks of life at all levels of power.
I fully concur.
Dude.
I notice you’ve been unusually thoughtful and sober-minded of late.
Holiday blahs? I hope nothing more serious.
Hope too that your almost charming, yet slightly grating, insouciance returns post-haste.
Somehow you make me think of the old joke—I want to attribute it to President Coolidge, but that can’t be right, can it?—about the woman who approached someone who was known to be droll, and said. “So I hear you’re quite the comedian. Say something funny.”
“Pleased to meet you,” he replied.