1. A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

2. You're the nincompoop. The test was postponed anyway.

3. A nincompoop I was.

4. Colonel Blake: Hot Lips, you incredible nincompoop. Its the end of the quarter.

5. Mr Steve King, leader of the hard left, denounces his fellow-councillors as dunderheads, nincompoops and dolts.

6. It was sheer bloody hell listening to all those fatuous nincompoops saying what a great guy you are.

7. "I know, I know, " screamed Eddie. "It's a Nincompoop! "

8. I'm out of sorts because I can't find the nincompoop who botched up the report.