“As cunning as a fox who’s just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University?” In the very last episode of “Blackadder,” Baldrick, Capt. Blackadder’s dogsbody, offers one of his oft mentioned “cunning plans” to save them from having to “go over the top” to almost certain death. Blackadder responds, “Well, I’m afraid it’s too late. Whatever it was, I’m sure it was better than my plan to get out of here by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman round here?”
My grandfather was a “sapper” in the Royal Engineers (long before Ireland gained it’s independence from England and, for some, the only way to get work). He fought in both the Boer War (1899) and then again in WWI and survived both. So he must have known just what that cunning plan was all about.
Hmmm . . . Professor of Cunning? I could do that.