oldbloke's mutterings

... was orrible from about 10am to about 12am, and it seemed an awful lot longer. It was close to the point where you go to the party to drop off the pressies and then leave, so he knows what he's missed, so he knows how annoyed you are with him.

But anyway.

At the moment we're amused by the way he says "I don't know how to say [name]".
Presumably he really means he doesn't know how to talk to the person in question.

Something else that's been amusing me for a while is the way he addresses anybody he's playing with whose name he doesn't know or can't remember as Friend. Even less effective, you'd expect, on 3yrd old Spanish girls than it is on peeps at home... but he pulls anyway.