As an add-on.

You're right CL was a sort of arrogant Basil Fawlty who used to like tripping other posters up over Charles Dickens. I never forget his favourite "Get a gripp" he used to say, referring to a Raven in a dicken's yarn, apart from that I know little about him- in Poole selling coffee you say?

As for the other one, something you don't know. He's Irish Chinese American, which helped him get the copper's job. Now known as (won't give actual name) Officer Maloney Li. Irish on his father's side. His family despaired of him doing sissy teaching jobs in between sleeping rough and frequenting soup kitchens where he was always getting into brawls over a scrap of fat or a wedge of bread. That's where a missionary not unknown on this forum first clapped eyes on him, lowering a steaming hot tea urn over another Paddy's head. Said missionary got him his first teaching job in Beijing, and now wishes he'd left him in the gutter.