Humphrey in the BBC comedy Yes Prime Minister:
“Although your comments are indeed clear, simple and straightforward there is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to them the epithets you apply in your comments, in as much as the precise correlation between the information you communicate, and the facts in so far as they can be determined and demonstrated is such as to cause epistemological problems, of sufficient magnitude as to lay upon the logical and semantic resources of the English language a heavier burden than they can reasonably be expected to bear.”
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