Hot enough for you? Hot enough to make your hat shoot out of your grasp, and find your feet suddenly jerking up:

   

Something of an exaggeration, I think.

No one was ever overcome by an excess of conversational cliches. Scoop needs an editor - someone who says "This doesn't work. Give it another run." You know, an editor like -

Oh, right. He quit. But he still writes the Boss every day. Does Hop expect the reader to have forgotten that he quit, or did he not give a fig for continuity?