"Now, what was that thing about the hedge hog you were, uh.."

"Oh, uh- that was a bit of an English dickey. I, uh, don't do a very good English dialect or anything else as far as that’s concerned. But, the, uh, it, uh, comes to us from, uh Cambridge in Oxford. It goes like this."

Exhaustive and painful researches
By Darwin and Huxley and Ball
Have conclusively shown that the hedge hog
Can scarcely be buggered at all

And further experimentation
Has incontrovertibly shown
That comparative safety at Oxford
Is enjoyed by the hedgehog alone

"Notice the, uh, British genius for understatement"