| 1 | He's an awkward/queer old cuss. | |
| 2 | His remarks at the swearing-in ranged from the perfunctory to the bizarre. | |
| 3 | Brian was always camping it up and pretending to be queer to make us laugh. | |
| 4 | The next few days were strange. Everyone crying, strange people around. | |
| 5 | It is an age of eccentricity, an abnormal era of the world's history. |