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Other resolute-mannered persons of various ages and sexes dropped in and told him things about Boomfood -- it was _ Punch _ first called the stuff `` Boomfood '' -- and afterwards reproduced what they had said as his own original contribution to the Interview . The thing became quite an obsession with Broadbeam , the Popular Humourist . He scented another confounded thing he could not understand , and he fretted dreadfully in his efforts to `` laugh the thing down . '' One saw him in clubs , a great clumsy presence with the evidences of his midnight oil burning manifest upon his large unwholesome face , explaining to every one he could buttonhole : `` These Scientific chaps , you know , have n't a Sense of Humour , you know . That 's what it is . This Science -- kills it . '' His jests at Bensington became malignant libels ... .