I’m a little late getting to this, but check out Stan’s Introducing Indo-European Jones over at Sentence first:
…Jonathon Owen replied that he wished he’d been given a “leather jacket, bullwhip, and fedora” upon graduation, James Callan said he wanted to see an “Indiana Jones pastiche focused on a linguist”, and I felt it was a meme waiting to happen. So without further ado, let me introduce Indo-European Jones (or Indy for short).
It’s a lot of fun (“Nothing shocks me … I’m a linguist!”), and you can add to the meme yourself; he links to the blank image he used.
It’s all about the hat, Language!
Shouldn’t your quotation read “Nothing shocks me … I’m a cunning linguist!”?
You mean this isn’t about Sir William?