As chairman of the Remoulade and District Fishermen's Guild, J-HS instinctively judged everything based on a person's stance re: herring. Anyone familiar with his 'The Lonely Kipperer's Lament' long-form* prose poem would be aware of this. I suspect OH failed to read it with the requisite care.

* not so much long-form as interminable.

I know from experience that OH could be rather slapdash when it came to research and checking his references. That and unhealthy addiction to semi colons made him a fair target for J-HS's ire.