[Servant of the Cross]

I honestly don't know, but since you asked seriously, I'll tell you that I saw it on FR (and I personally have not heard it said elsewhere). I confess that the whiteboard depicted on my post above was stolen ... from a Texan FReeper, who is stout-hearted, a scout, thoughtful, friendly, courteous and kind. He's reverent and grave. He's healthy and he's brave. He's clean in soul and body and mind.

However, you just might be on to something about that 'faintly gay' part ......

Pablo is very wily ... She Is A Very Freaky Girl

[humblegunner]

To finally put the issue to rest.. it’s Hemingway.

http://wikilivres.info/wiki/For_Whom_the_Bell_Tolls/9

“In this war are many foolish things,” Agustín said. “In this war there is an idiocy without bounds.”

“Clearly,” said Pilar. “Otherwise we could not be here.”

“Yes,” said Agustín. “We swim within the idiocy for a year now. But Pablo is a man of much understanding. Pablo is very wily.”

“Why do you say this?”

“I say it.”

“But you must understand,” Pilar explained. “It is now too late to be saved by wiliness and he has lost the other.”