LL Cool Jim

By LLCoolJim

Bah Humbug

This fella's puss greets me each morning of work. He sits right outside the opening to my office. I reckon he is the double of my father-in-law although not as much as my father-in-law looks like Willie Rushton.

This is in fact " Sir William Orpen's glowering image of James Law, The Scotsman's formidably energetic and innovative business manager, who joined the paper at 18 and died, still in harness, almost 65 years later, in 1922. "

His miserable features bring a smile to my face each day.
We have quite a gallery of them on this floor and he looks the most Dickensian and terrifying.

I imagine he bellowed "BOY!" in sentences to juniors at this old place.

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