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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse at bedtime
Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:21:19 GMT

amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes:
>PGW = Pelham Granville (sp?) Wodehouse

Grenville.

Incidentally, my dictionary refers to him as "U.S. author born in Britain".
He lived in New York, of course, being out of favour with the British
Establishment ("traitor" is the word sometimes used) on account of some
wartime broadcasts from Berlin.
-- 
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Shine out, fair sun, with all your heat!  Black winter freezes to his seat...
The boneless fish close quaking lies...the stars in icicles arise!
From: sivak-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (D Sivakumar)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Viva Wodehouse
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:23:25 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <TAK.93Jan21090015@molly.jpl.nasa.gov> tak@molly.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Kreitzberg) writes:
>> Let me cite some memorable wodehousia:
>>
>> Any more, folks?
>


	Wooster on Spode..

	"Our views on each other were definite.  He (Roderick Spode)
	held the view that what England needed, if it were to become
	a land fit for heroes to live in, was fewer and better Woosters,
	while I have always felt that there was nothing wrong with
	England that a ton of bricks falling from a height on Spode's
	head wouldn't cure".

	-Siva
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From: nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein)
Subject: Wodehouse translation
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:51:13 GMT

First, a question: does anyone know of any Wodehouse translations?  The task
seems impossible to me.  I remember an essay burbling about the impossibility
of translating the Master into French...  (reference, old thing?)

Wherefore I propose, fellow Drones, a brief sporting flutter.  Let us create:

			THE GREAT TRANSLATION HANDICAP

Competitors select any three paragraphs of Wodehouse and translate them
into any other language.  The paragraphs don't have to be consecutive; in 
fact, it might be far more interesting to select whatever three paragraphs you
think best show off the Master's wonderful command of the pliable tongue.  Post
results to the net.

Now, the fun part:

Bettors give odds on which selection&translation will win a popular vote...  
Have I roused the sporting blood of the Drones?

						- Neil Bernstein
						Struggling Classics Major

PS: Contact Augustus Fink-Nottle to hand out prizes
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From: satishc@microsoft.com (Satish Chittamuru)
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:36:15 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <Jan22.050258.32415@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
 > 
 > (More trivia : (easy) - Bertie's middle name? And how did he get it?

As you said, the first one is easy. "Bertram Wilberforce Wooster".
The rest, I haven't a clue.

 > Also, Jeeves' first name, anyone? )
 > 
 > -kannan


-- 
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=====
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Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
From: loki@netcom.com (James E Myers)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:08:02 GMT
Distribution: na
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karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:

>BTW, any American fans of Wodehouse out there?? I was a little surprised to
>find that whenever I tried to bring up the subject of P.G.W. in American
>company, the response I got was, "Wodehouse? Never heard of him!".....

Absolutely, we've even heard of him out here in California!  (And considering
what he thought of Hollywood, wouldn't he be surprised by that?)

--James

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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:52:50 GMT

In <Jan21.062413.87684@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:

>[This group is long overdue!]

Absolutely!!

>Unfortunately, my mental pictures of Bertie and Jeeves received a rude shock
>when I chanced upon the first episode (which was an adaptation of "Mating
>Season, if I'm not mistaken). I felt Steven Fry as Jeeves was too expressive and
>(*horror*) not only smiled (instead of merely twitching his lip) but
>unabashedly raised his eyebrows far beyond the regulatory one-eighth of an
>inch.)

:-> However, I like the look of absolute horror on Bertie's face at the
mention of Aunt Agatha! Those eyes! Actually, that look may be better 
suited to Lord Emsworth, on being informed by the irrepressible Galahad
that sister Hermione was camping out at Blandings!

Have there been any TV series based on the Blandings saga?

BTW, any American fans of Wodehouse out there?? I was a little surprised to
find that whenever I tried to bring up the subject of P.G.W. in American
company, the response I got was, "Wodehouse? Never heard of him!".....

>-kannan

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Neeran   Karnik  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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University of Minnesota         |        karn0001@student.tc.umn.edu
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From: gmclucki@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gemma McLuckie)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:16:23 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <karnik.727635170@myria> karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes
>
>:-> However, I like the look of absolute horror on Bertie's face at the
>mention of Aunt Agatha! Those eyes! Actually, that look may be better
>suited to Lord Emsworth, on being informed by the irrepressible Galahad
>that sister Hermione was camping out at Blandings!
>
The actor who plays Bertie (sorry, I'm horrible at names) plays the doctor on 
the new Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series. He's the comic relief, I think. But 
not nearly as broad humor as the Wodehouse series.

Gemma
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From: sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse translation
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:30:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.123429@axion.bt.co.uk> ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley) writes:
>
>In article <C1J5MJ.w2@news.iastate.edu>, sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) writes:
>|> In article <1k6pfsINNmhv@pollux.usc.edu> brao@pollux.usc.edu (Bapa Rao) writes:
>|> >I can't imagine Wodehouse translating well into any language. Rewrites,
>|> >perhaps. But you have to read it in English to appreciate the humor.
>|> 
>|> Not necessarily. Asterix is translated from the French.
>
>I think the case rests, as anyone who has read Asterix in the original will agree. It
>lost a *lot* in the translation.

Although I haven't (since I don't know French), I have no doubt
that you are right. However, the popularity of the English version
of Asterix (ok, perhaps not in NA, but then nor is PGW, so it means
nothing :-)) attests to the fact that the translation is, at the
very least, adequate.

Besides, if you consider the time that you'd need to spend in learning
languages before you could appreciate Asterix, Marquez, Premchand and
Gorky in the original, you might prefer a good watered-down translation over
no translation.

Unless, of you course, you spit you of Marquez, Premchand, Gorky and Asterix...

Sachin
PS - Does George Mikes write in his native tongue (Hungarian?) too?
From: makarand@gazelle.larc.nasa.gov (Makarand A. Kulkarni)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Wodehouse at bedtime
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:31:51 GMT
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In article <106026@netnews.upenn.edu>, crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:|> |> A chapter or two of Wodehouse is my favorite bedtime ritual.  His little
|> world is so idyllic, so absurd, so devoid of reality, and so much fun that
|> I find it most calming and the perfect way to end the day.
|> Sort of the literary equivalent of a warm glass of milk.  I
|> also enjoy him on train or plane trips.  Easy to pick up, easy to put
|> down, always entertaining.  
|> 
|> As to plots, they all run together for me.  Sometimes, I noticed, he
|> actually repeated himself, particularly toward the end of his life.  Same
|> wordings even.
|> 
|> Here's an ignorant question:  Why do they call him "Plum"?  And what does
|> P.G. actually stand for?
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
|> if only from time to time.     -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
|> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Lauren Crawford  //  crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu


The man's full name was Pelham Greenville Wodehouse.

Regards

Makarand
makarand@puma.larc.nasa.gov
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From: mara@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Mara)
Subject: Re: Is this group alive?
Organization: /u/student/mara/.organization
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:30:01 GMT
Distribution: alt

In article gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:


>   I have the FAQ prepared, but there's no traffic as far as I can see.
>   How widely was the newgrp distributed?

>   Nat

Well, I'm getting it in the next room :)

mara

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From: phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne)
Subject: Pitchfork?
Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge Ma, USA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:55:24 GMT


Eons (well, at least twelve years) ago, I saw a PBS dramatization of a
Wodehouse story which ended with a chararter being chased by a mob.
They run into a house where someone is doing a crossword, and the
dialog that ensues is;

	"What is a 9 letter word for an implement used in the pusuit
	of agriculture?"

	"Pitchfork.  And that's not all it's used in pursuit of!!"

Does anyone know the name of the story?

Re Jeeves & Wooster;

My favorite part of the J&W presentations are what goes on in the
background in Bertie's club.  One episode had them playing cricket
using a fireplace shovel as the bat!!

I can swear I've read the story about J&W going to N.Y.  The ending I
recall is completely different (Aunt Agatha turns out to have been an
old music hall singer).  I was shocked by the Jeeves' behavior in the
last story of the recent series (beaning a cop), and can't help
wondering if that story hadn't been tampered with as well!

I agree, that Bertie is played well (an utter boob), but Jeeves could
have been more rigid!
From: sivak-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (D Sivakumar)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Date: 22 Jan 93 23:07:55 GMT
Organization: UB

In article (Haavard Fosseng) writes:
>In article (Sanjay Srinivasan) writes:
>
>   Jeeves' first name: I'd really like to know that. I don't think he has one
>
>   Sanjay
>
>
>I seem to remember that in one of the books (I don't remember any title)
>Bertie is almost run over by a car due to absentmindedness, but is pulled 
>onto the pavement by a passer-by who happens to be Jeeves. Jeeves then takes
>him to the butler's club, where they run into a distasteful member of said 
>club who addresses Jeeves as "Reggie" (Reginald).
>
>Bertie has met this person before, and grows quite worried because -- as a 
>member of the butler's club -- he has access to the book where Jeeves has 
>scrupulously chronicled Bertie's (mis)adventures.


	The distasteful member is "Bingley", who was once
	Bertie's valet (for a brief period during Jeeves' absence),
	and who set afire a cottage and accused Bertie of doing so.

	When Bingley addresses Jeeves "Reggie", Bertie says
	something like... "This came as a shocking revelation
	to me.  I had never thought Jeeves had a first name. I
	pondered on what it would have been like, had it been
	Bertram"...

	-Siva

	PS: At the end of the story (I think it is "Much Obliged, Jeeves"),
	Jeeves burns the eighteen pages of the Junior Ganymede
	Club Book in which he had recorded Bertie's misadventures.

-- 
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From: rancke@diku.dk (Hans Rancke-Madsen)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Viva Wodehouse
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:15:07 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

My favourite lines are those twisted-up ones like:

"Ever seen driven snow?"
"I've heard it mentioned."
"Well, that's what I'm as pure as."

or

"I don't know if you know what umbrage is, but that is what she took."




      Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
     rancke@diku.dk
------------
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fellow human beings, and I just can't _stand_ people like that!"
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From: "rajesh kamath" <rkamath@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:25:52 -0500

As for the Mulliner story where the hero is chased by a mob (led
ominously by a man wielding a pitchfork), it's THE COMING OF GEORGE
and our hero is George Mulliner ("Meet Mr. Mulliner")

George loves his girl as much as his crossword puzzle, though he
has the unfortunate handicap of stuttering when he tries to speak. His
imaginative doctor suggests that he `sing it' (`Sing it?' `Sing it!')
as a sure cure for his problem.

Unfortunately, a rather tuneful conversation with a white-faced lady
in a train causes our hero to be mistaken for a escapee from the local
asylum, and as a result the whole town chases him across many
districts (led, of course, by the Pitchfork man - George detested
them all, but he especially detested the man with the Pitchfork).

Mr. Mulliner (who relates this story) remarks that he, George, ran
so fast and sure, that a speeding rabbit who happened to see him
shrugged its shoulders helplessly and went away...

Kamath


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From: balaji@nimbus.yorku.ca (Balaji)
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Organization: York University
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:20:56 GMT

karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
|> BTW, any American fans of Wodehouse out there?? I was a little surprised to
|> find that whenever I tried to bring up the subject of P.G.W. in American
|> company, the response I got was, "Wodehouse? Never heard of him!".....

Plum himself wrote: I asked 10 people in an American hotel where I was
staying if they'd heard of PG Wodehouse. Nine said no, the tenth said:
down the corridor, first door on your right.

Balaji

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From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
Subject: Re: Gussy Finknottle
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	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:30:04 GMT

In article <C17IA0.Ly6@world.std.com> kcl@world.std.com (Katherine C Long
 writes:
>   I am also enjoying the latest Wodehouse on TV (still have
>the 4th part to watch.)  I understand that TV has to take
>some liberties with the text - but I do like PGW's endings
>better than the TV script's.  I thought the ending where
>Aunt Agatha is hit by the fire hose stream was overdone.
>But it was fun to see how the short stories were melded together.
>
>   Anyhow, aside from the main characters, the casting of
>Gussy the Newt Fancier and Madeline Basset, who believes
>that every time a baby coughs a wee fairy is born, is grand!
>The Drones' Club is just how I pictured it - I hope we get
>to see the Ganymede Club where Jeeves hangs out!
>
>Katherine Long
>kcl@world.std.com
>
>  8-)
>   XXXXxxxx=
>


A note about the casting of the current PBS TV series...

Between the first series and second, both Madalyn Basset and Gussie
Fink-Nottle were recast.  My mother didn't approve of the change,
saying that the "new" Miss Basset comes off like the "dumb blonde"
in old movies, though the new Gussie is more "sensible" than the  
old one.

Incidentally, in the episode where Bertie and Gussie had to imper-   
sonate each other (that's no more of a spoiler than in the TV guide),
I about cracked up when I heard the name that Catsmeat Potter-Perbright
was using when he was pretending to be a valet--"Meadows".  Check
out my own name and you'll see why.  :-)

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From: loki@netcom.com (James E Myers)
Subject: Re: Featherstonehaugh
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:49:28 GMT

rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:


>In article <1993Jan24.010817.20854@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman) writes:
>pronounced "Fungy."  I mean to say, what, what, what? :-)

>Could someone (maybe our friends in the UK) enlighten me? -- what exactly is
>Debrett's?  Sherlock Holmes keeps pulling out his Debrett's "Peerage" once in a
>while -- is it, as I surmise, a Who's Who of British royalty?

	Debrett's Peerage lists all the peers of Britain, and all the previous
holders of the title, as well as giving biographical information, offices held,
clubs and so forth.  It also includes valuable tips about the Royal Household,
proper forms of address, and so on and so forth.  A new edition is published
every year.

	--James

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From: geoff@flash.bellcore.com (Geoffrey Clemm)
Subject: Partial listing of Wodehouse titles
Organization: Bellcore
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:00:59

I happen to keep a list of my current Wodehouse titles on line, so I thought
I'd just pass it along.   I'll extend this to a full list of Wodehouse titles
when I get back from Usenix.

For anyone contemplating a change of University, I highly recommend the
University of Colorado at Boulder.  I've heard people burble on about the
weather and the skiing and what not, but the essential fact is that the
University library possesses a *complete* collection of Wodehouse, all in
hardback, and often in early editions.

My full address is: geoff@wodehouse.bellcore.com, which speaks for itself.

What Ho !

Geoff

-----------------------------------

Pothunters, The			1902
Prefect's Uncle, A		1903
Tales of St. Austin's		1903
Gold Bat, The			1904
Head of Kay's, The		1905
White Feather, The		1907
Psmith in the City		1910
Something Fresh			1915
Something New
Psmith Journalist		1915
Uneasy Money			1916
Man With Two Left Feet, The	1917
Damsel in Distress, A		1919
Indiscretions of Archie		1921
Adventures of Sally, The	1922
Mostly Sally
Inimitable Jeeves, The		1923
Jeeves
Leave it to Psmith		1923
Sam the Sudden			1925
Sam in the Suburbs
Heart of a Goof, The		1926
Summer Lightning		1929
Fish Preferred
Very Good, Jeeves		1930
Big Money			1931
Doctor Sally			1932
Hot Water			1932
Mulliner Nights			1933
Heavy Weather			1933
Thank You, Jeeves		1934
Brinkley Manor			1934
Right Ho, Jeeves
Blandings Castle		1935
Luck of the Bodkins, The	1935
Young Men in Spats		1936
Laughing Gas			1936
Lord Emsworth and Others	1937
Crime Wave at Blandings
Summer Moonshine		1937
Code of the Woosters, The	1938
Uncle Fred in the Springtime	1939
Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets	1940
Quick Service			1940
Money in the Bank		1942
Joy in the Morning		1946
Full Moon			1947
Spring Fever			1948
Mating Season, The		1949
Pigs Have Wings			1952
Return of Jeeves, The		1953
Ring for Jeeves
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit	1954
Bertie Wooster Sees It Through
Cocktail Time			1958
How Right You Are, Jeeves	1960
Jeeves in the Offing
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves		1963
Company for Henry		1967
Purloined Paperweight, The
Do Butlers Burgle Banks		1968
Pelican at Blandings, A		1969
No Nudes Is Good Nudes
Girl in Blue, The		1970
Jeeves and the Tie That Binds	1971
Much Obliged, Jeeves
Bachelors Anonymous		1973
Aunts Aren't Gentleman		1974
Cat-nappers, The
--
geoff@bellcore.com
From: tak@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Kreitzberg)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:58:04
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In-reply-to: amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu's message of 21 Jan 93 12:00:06

In article <AMATHUR.93Jan21120006@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu> amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes:

> I read a lot of PGWs in India. I guess they would be popular in UK and 
> probably the US. Where else does Wodehouse attract people (I saw a posting 
> from Sweden) ?

I heard Wodehouse say once that his books were being translated into
Russian. (Dickens' as well, I think.) The idea the Soviets had was to
show how the idle aristocracy lived, off the suffering of the working
poor. I'd be interested to learn how successful this propaganda was....

	Tom

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From: arneh@bsc.no (Arne Halvorsen)
Subject: war camp stories
Organization: Bergen Scientific Centre, Bergen, NORWAY
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:03:56 GMT

allo, allo.

  Good group!
 
  Have read some PG books but not lately, but of all books ever read I find
  only Douglas Adams and PGs books the ones I realy remember for the good
  time.

  And now for an expert question:

    I have heard somewhere that PG after the war made something comic about
    british prisoner of war, kind of life in german prisoner camps thing,
    but that he this time completly missed his readers, and that he got
    a lot of flames for this.

    Anything in this??, and is the stories if they exist to be get, to day
    we may have fun, me, I am born after the war.

bye.
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From: tprasad@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Trivikram Prasad)
Subject: Wodehouse
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ USA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:33:48 GMT


I have been seeing all the articles about the Wodehouse characters.
Nobody ever mentioned one of my most favorite characters Psmith with
the 'P' silent! His adventures in New York were, I thought one of 
the best PGW has ever written.  And how about Ukridge with all his
harebrained schemes
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From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:26:19 GMT
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In article <1993Jan25.151737.6682@walter.bellcore.com>
 yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com writes:

>I believe The Clicking of Cuthbert is a collection of short stories,
>mainly (if not exclusively) concerned with golf.  

Not quite.  "The Clicking of Cuthbert" is a single short story, one of
the "golf" tales.  It's one of my favorites in the Wodehouse canon.

	-P.
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