What?

In the run-down (count-down? run-up?) to the New Year, a little snack to keep you busy before the main attraction:

He's really much too lovely to be just a place-marker, but there you have it: life can be so unfair sometimes. Anyway, he can take consolation from the certain knowledge that, if circumstances arose, I'd do him.

Er... carry on, people: nothing to see here.