During my years writing for The Globe and Mail, I once incurred the wrath of Canadian media baron John W. H. Bassett, who also owned a number of professional sports teams.

I’d rather not talk about that, okay?

Around the same time, his son John F. Bassett was also demonstrating a facility with words, as seen below.

I’ve become slightly wiser since then, and try to avoid confrontations with the Bassett family!