 Farthing is also fond of whisky and there is a recurring gag (in pub situations) where Captain Mainwaring will offer to buy the Vicar a drink and the Vicar will respond "a double whisky (or scotch) please" at a time when whisky was in short supply and expensive.Just as Captain Mainwaring is resigning himself to pay for this expensive beverage the verger will usually insist that Captain Mainwaring change "his Reverence's" order to a single rather than a double as "he's a martyr to it".When Mainwaring orders a single rather than a double, the Vicar will then inform him that he has "noticed" this and imply that Captain Mainwaring is mean.