Originally Posted by
safetypee
Minister writes side note on memo ‘Spherical objects’
Later, Sir Humphrey enquires; ‘who is Spherical, and to what does he object?’
Use a small bothy between Gare Lock and Lock Long.
That is apparently from a story about Churchill towards the end of the War - he wrote 'Round objects' in the margin of a memo, only to be asked by an aide who Round was and why did he object?
I read it here on PPRuNe.