I knew a pile of pants, and you, sir, are no pile of pants.
You gotta hand it to the BBC.

USAGE: Letter rejecting asylum seeker's case, from a Home Office official, December 2000: "With regard to your claim to be a national of Afghanistan, the Secretary of State thinks that this is a pile of pants."

Allow me just to say, pants!

(17:58 EST, Monday, 18 December 2000.)