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I am a new member, have read nine-tenths of Wodehouse, and know him like the back of my -something that begins with an H- hand! <br><br>"Jeeves and the Feudal ...
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Feb 6, 2001
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In Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., my GHQ, it is dashed hard to find anything in the way of secondhand Wodehouse books. My theory is that people just don't...
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Feb 6, 2001
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well, i'm most pleased to be the first to say a big "WHAT HO!" to you, harry. welcome.<br><br>toodle-pip,<br><br>sami...
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Feb 7, 2001
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what ho!<br><br>i KNOW, i KNOW, but ebay is a good place to find wodehouse. well, certainly better than any of the bookstores in town, so...<br><br>you know,...
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Feb 7, 2001
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The trouble with "Barmy in Wonderland" is that it is very slow and not too funny. <br><br>As for finding Wodehouse, as opposed to buying him, I've a good ...
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Feb 7, 2001
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Hi! I am an avid PG Wodehouse reader, and pleased to discover some fellow fans. I'm from new Zealand, where we can still buy Wodehouse paperbacks at second ...
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Feb 8, 2001
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Just started reading "The Pothunters," a collection of P.G.W.'s school stories. This is 1904, he is twenty-three, clearly a long way from hitting his stride,...
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Feb 14, 2001
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Dear Drones: <br><br>Whilst having my porridge this morning, I hit on an idea for a novel featuring Bertie Wooster's twin cousins, Claude and Eustace. ...
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Feb 21, 2001
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This is just what I've been looking for over the past decade!! At the age of eight my parents made the mistake of letting me watch Jeeves and Wooster, whence I...
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Apr 11, 2001
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Oh, yes! Right Ho, Jeeves is by far and away the best!!! Excellent taste!! Although I have to say I prefered Gussie being dressed up as Mephistopheles and the ...
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Apr 11, 2001
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I personally preferred "The code of the Woosters" over "right ho, Jeeves". The fight for a silver cow-creamer is so absurd and absolutely comical. <br><br>Some...
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Apr 12, 2001
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code of the woosters was the first pg book i ever read.it was a herbert jenkins edition of my grandfather's that was distributed to army personell to keep them...
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Apr 13, 2001
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Aaaah, my introduction to Wodehouse was via the audio tapes, to be perfectly honest. The old ones, that is, Richard Briers I think, now the new Simon Callow ...
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Apr 14, 2001
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To me, the best character created by Plum was Uncle Fred, 5th Earl of good old Ickenham. Uncle Fred in the Springtime is my all-time favorite Wodehouse book....
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Apr 21, 2001
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I was just reading "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit" and this passage made me laugh so hard that I had to stop to catch my breath.<br><br>"...his air that of one...
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Apr 24, 2001
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I have just joined... Nice to see guys around who share your tastes.<br><br>My favorite PGW book... "Over Seventy" which is more of an...
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Apr 26, 2001
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Wodehouse is, no doubt, the master of the hysterical one-liners. If you want a whole book of these short snatches of wit, you must get "Wodehouse Nuggets" by...
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May 24, 2001
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If anyone were to ask me to use one word to describe Wodehouse's genius, I would say "inventiveness."<br>His zany situations and how they progress deeper into...
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May 24, 2001
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While reading 'The Uncollected Wodehouse,' a compilation of Plum's earliest work, I happened to learn that the first of the Bertie Wooster stories appeared in ...
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Aug 17, 2001
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Why are certain members of The Drones Club called Eggs, Beans, or Crumpets? Did Plum ever address this question in any of the stories?...
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Aug 17, 2001
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Bertram Wooster first appeared in the story "Extricating Young Gussie" which was published, together with three other stories, as "The Man with Two Left Feet" ...
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Aug 19, 2001
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Has anyone else here noticed that in the 1935 book The Luck of the Bodkins towards the end of chapter 13 after the characte Monty Bodkin sees a smorgasbord of...
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Oct 5, 2001
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Hi Dean, What has happened to <a href=http://www.baggygator.com/wodehouse/default.html target=new>http://www.baggygator.com/wodehouse/default.html</a>...
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Nov 8, 2001
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For you Wodehouse lovers, the next step, if you haven't taken it already, is to read Saki, a.k.a. H.H.Munro. He's from the same era with an equally good style ...
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Nov 10, 2001
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I second that, I read munro a few years ago, my favorite story is about that cat that learned to speak human language, I think he was called tobermori or...
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Dec 8, 2001
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Your memory serves you well. The story is a Clovis one, yclept Tobermory, and the problem was the talking cat had access to all manner of embarassing gossip....
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Dec 8, 2001
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now that we are at it, the Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock is a great read as well...
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Dec 10, 2001
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what ho!<br><br>Has any one seen the Granada Televisions series, wooster and Jeeves, I just watched the whole collections, 3 seasons, and 23 episodes, its ...
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Dec 10, 2001
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Hello Wodehousians<br><br>The television series you mention are also available on DVD (the first 3 series)<br><br>Pip Pip<br>Bertie Pepper...
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Dec 30, 2001
12:50 pm
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You may purchase each of the four series on VHS or each of the first three on DVD at aande.com for a better price than most other places I've seen. They (Fry ...
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