"So - my new boyfriend - do you like him?"
"Errr...how can I say this without hurting your feelings? No."
"What!? Why not?"
"I dunno... he's just... there's the clang of the rusty bell about him."
"...Oh."
"Even as the clang of the rusty bell reverberated in his ears, Arnold managed to convince the policeman that he had been nowhere near the scene of the incident at the time."