He made a career of playing excitable, meddlesome, temperamental, and officious blowhards. Berkeley was friendly towards Sharpe, a reasonable and amiable man if occasionally overly officious. Jobson, the Squire's pedantic and officious clerk, wants to pursue the matter on legal principle. In his enthusiasm, he pens an officious and patronizing letter of encouragement to the woman. His official and officious escapades were mockingly reported in the local paper. This gave him the officious title "mister Serious Request". On Hedges' arrival at Hooghly, Charnock found him to be an officious neophyte. "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". If B tries to coerce payment, B is an officious intermeddler. Later the name "Yahoo" was popularized as an bacronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The classic tests have been the "business efficacy test" and the "officious bystander test". In Hollywood, Gaines frequently played professional or officious types in supporting roles.