The fact of the matter is, a wind-up is a wind-up. As Lord Harrington discovered during his expedition to The Sudan in 1904, if you don't catch the perpetrator of a wind-up, he'll keep on with his windings-up. Harrington was unaware that there was a "winder-upper" in his regiment until it was far too late. The winder-upper wound-up one of the natives they had just met, who turned out to be a winder-upper himself, so the winder-upper went back to Lord Harrington and completely failed to mention that the winder-upper he had wound up had gone back to his tribe and wound-up them about the winder-upper he had wound-up during the chance encounter in the bush.

 The upshot of the whole thing was that half-an-hour later the whole regiment had been completely slaughtered by a vicious clan of savage cannibals, which turned out to be rather bad for the morale of the men - and all because of a wind-up. So, you see, don't ever wind-up anyone unless you have a very, very good reason to do so**.

Lord Harrrington		Lord Harrington's regiment

**or unless you just can't help yourself. . .