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From: kencham@giga.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote)
Subject: Who is ......
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:49:09 GMT

Who is *much fanfare*

	Algernon Aubrey Little

Ho!

\deepak
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From: rlharrin@unix.amherst.edu (Rich Harrington)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:11:25 GMT

Peter Shenkin (shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu) wrote:

[munch...]
 
: Also, when it comes to full-length novels, aren't there far more of these
: about Jeeves and Bertie than about anyone else?  In fact, I'm not sure
: I've even read any PGW full-length novels that weren't about Bertie
: and Jeeves....
: 
: 	-P.
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   This may show more my Great Uncle Hap's prejudices more than actual fact,
but I haven't come across any full-length Jeeves books.  Books like _Heavy
Weather_, _Hot Water_, _Do Butlers Burgle Banks?_ [I think that was full-
length -- I am, unfortunately, separated from my collection], and _The 
Purloined Paperweight_ are about other folks.

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From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Subject: Wodehouse query
Originator: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:25:32 GMT
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One of the most hilarious moments in a Jeeves/Bertie book is when someone
recites a parody of a romantic poem, in which the setting sun is compared
in appearance to an overly rare slice of roast beef.  I'm sure I own
this book, but I've leafed through my collection several times looking
for the quotation, and haven't been able to find it.

Can anyone out there name the book in which this quote appears?

	-P.
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
Subject: Re: PGW Trivia
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:21:55 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


kencham@ulysses.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote) writes:

|> Two questions, one easy, the other tough:
|> 
|> (Easy) : Before _Jeeves_, who was in _BW_'s service? 

Meadowes.

|> (Slightly harder): Why did the person in Q.(Easy) leave?

Because he was guilty of sneaking Bertie's silk socks. :-)

|> (Hard) : What's the _Oldest Member_'s name?

Sorry. Dunno which "Oldest Member" you're talking about. 

-kannan

ps - Try this one. Does Bertie know Lord Emsworth? 

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From: kseethar@cs.ulowell.edu (Krishnan Seetharaman)
Subject: Re: Hello hello
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:09:00 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.032258.13590@cis.uab.edu> shenai@willis.cis.uab.edu (Aravind K. Shenai) writes:
>Finally the newsgroup I have been waiting for. After coming to USA 
>(I am from India) I have been always looking out for PGW books and fans.
>Buying a PGW here is much tougher than back home. Unfortunately, our
>school lib. is also poorly stocked. I have bought most of my books through
>mail orders. I'd like to know which the best source for Wodehouse books 
>in USA is. 
>In Bombay, about 4 years ago I struck it rich when i acquired 15 Wodehouses
>for Rs. 15 (50 cents) each! 
>
>My thanks to everyone involved in getting this group up on the nw!! 
>
>-Aravind


Try Barnes & Noble. They usually dont have *any* titles in the store but
will order it for you. Thats what I have been doing, I order a couple of
books every month - thats all I can afford on my Graduate Student budget!
One of these days, when I make big bucks, I am going to buy the entire
collection!

The City Library in Lowell has quite a decent collection, I would think
at least 50 titles, a lot of them are original editions. 

Cheers..
-ks

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From: "rajesh kamath" <rkamath@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Viva Wodehouse
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Hi everybody,

Good to see a newsgroup on the master of comedy. As for a term for all
right thinking Wodehouse fans, how about "Wodeheads" a la Deadheads for
the Grateful Dead?

Let me cite some memorable wodehousia:

"He had the look of a frustrated tiger whose personal physician had
recommended a strict vegetarian diet..."

"....fell into the washing machine and did as many revolutions per minute
as a small African republic..."

"....conversing with  Aunt Dahlia was like throwing chaff into the  path
of a lively tornado.."

Any more, folks?

Pip-pip and toodle-oo, what?
Rajesh Kamath


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From: corman@Ingres.COM (Anthony Corman)
Subject: Re: What do you call Wodehouse fans?
Reply-To: corman@Ingres.COM (Anthony Corman)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:33:06 GMT

Wodehosers?

Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: karuzis@wccf.mit.edu (GLENN HOLM)
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:15:00 GMT

In article <C1A2x8.F51@acsu.buffalo.edu>, sivak-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (D Sivakumar) writes...
>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
> 
>	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
>-- 
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>Dept. of Computer Science,			sivak-d@acsu.buffalo.edu
>SUNY at Buffalo,
>Buffalo, NY 14260.

I would never take the word of Bingley.  I condiser the matter
unsolved.

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From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Partial listing of Wodehouse titles
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:37:26 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University



|> 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.

As a fan who graduated from CU-Boulder, I can confirm this. There are 160
titles (some with overlaps and others biographical) available at Norlin
library. 

-kannan

ps - Most omnibus collections (I own two, Jeeves and Mulliner) have a complete
listing of all PGW titles. To find those in print, all you have to do is walk
up to your local library and pick up the tome titled, "Books in Print." Info
about the publishers and how to order titles are also available. 
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
Subject: Re: Extracts 
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:57:13 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


In article <C1FEpp.J3F@news2.cis.umn.edu>,
rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:

|> > Incidentally, for die-hard Bertie and Jeeves fans, who was Bertie's valet
|> > before he hired Jeeves?
|> 
|> Bingley, wasn't it?

No. Meadowes. Here's some relevant low-down (from "Jeeves Takes Charge"). 

"I had found Meadowes, the fellow I had taken to Easeby with me, sneaking my
silk socks, a thing no bloke of spirit could stick at any price. It
transpiring, moreover, that he had looted a lot of other things here and there
about the place, I was reluctantly compelled to hand the misguided blighter the
mitten and go to London to ask the registry office to dig up another specimen
for my approval. They sent me Jeeves."

|> > And who did Jeeves work for before Bertie? 
|> 
|> Lord Worplesdon?

Right. Apart from excellent references, it was the famous pick-me-up concoction
that delivered the goods and launched Jeeves' career with Bertie. 

For those interested in the secret recipe of Jeeves' pick-me-up, here it is. 

"It is a preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives 
it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its
bite. Gentlemen have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening."

-kannan

"I'm not much of a ladies' man, but on this particular morning it seemed to me
that what I really wanted was some charming girl to buzz up and ask me to save
her from assassins or something."
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: dsb@world.std.com (David Boyce)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:54:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.203537.29848@walter.bellcore.com> yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com writes:
>
>I seem to recall that there was some flap over Wodehouse's alleged involvement
>in Nazi propaganda during WWII.  Anyone out there have ``further and better particulars"?
>
>-yatin.

I don't remember all the details, but there was such a controversy.
In fact, George Orwell wrote an essay which essentially amounts
to a defense of Wodehouse, published in one of Orwell's books of
essays. See that for further information. As I recall, the gist of it
was that PG was living in France and doing a radio show when the Germans
took over. They offered to let him continue the show and he, being
politically naive (this is Orwell's analysis but I think it's pretty
clear that Wodehouse didn't pay too much attention to current events,
or anything that happened after 1920 for that matter) continued doing it.
Meanwhile, the Germans were broadcasting it back to England where it
was used as propaganda.
I think this may have been a part of his decision to move to the US
where he spent the remaining years of his life.

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: muralp@vccnw04.its.rpi.edu (Muralidharan Pandheeradi)
Subject: What ho! fellow Wodehouse fans!
Reply-To: muralp@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:46:10 GMT

Keywords:
Thanks to everyone who initiated this newsgroup. I thought I was lonely in 
my caze for Wodehouse novels when the mention of his name usually got the 
response "who" from many people I know around here. I used to be able to 
read and enjoy his great humor a great deal, in India before I came to US for 
graduate studies. Anyway, great to find a newsgroup like this. 

A favorite line of mine:
" So decent of you to stand me lunch. Ritz will be OK. What! no lunch? Then, say, man to man, slip us a fiver. " (i am sorry, some fun is probably lost 
because the exact words may be slightly different than above.)
From: udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: The Junior Ganymede
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:42:21 GMT
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Organization: Rice University


Jeeves is known to belong to 'The Junior Ganymede'
club. Does anyone happen to know the reason for that name?
Is "Ganymede" some classical allusion- it would not
be surprising, considering the other classical 
allusions in PGW's work? 

Any ideas?


(I once went to a talk organized by the Houston
chapter of the Wodehouse Society. The speaker
was a retired colnel from the Britsh Army, 
a chap by the name of  N. T. P. Murphy 
(author of "In Search of
Blandings"). He was wearing a "Jeeves" tie that
evening. When I asked him about it he told me that
there was a very select Dry Cleaner's in London
called "The Junior Ganymede". The "Jeeves" tie was 
standard issue to all the employees!)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: louns@cs.washington.edu (Michael Lounsbery)
Subject: Re: The Junior Ganymede
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:30:02 GMT

In article <C1IzyM.GLJ@rice.edu> udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626) writes:
>
>Jeeves is known to belong to 'The Junior Ganymede'
>club. Does anyone happen to know the reason for that name?
>Is "Ganymede" some classical allusion- it would not
>be surprising, considering the other classical 
>allusions in PGW's work? 
>
>Any ideas?

It is indeed a classical allusion.  Ganymede was a mortal boy whom Zeus
apparently considered attractive.  Zeus therefore made him his cup-bearer (a
servant who officially poured the wine).  The moons around the planet
Jupiter are named after this god's loves, and one of them is named Ganymede.

So Ganymede was servant to the gods, hence the club's name.  But as to why
the JUNIOR Ganymedes, there you have me. Perhaps the club members jocularly
considered themselves as apprentices to Ganymede?

Michael Lounsbery
louns@cs.washington.edu
From: aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves' Peeves
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:16:38 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Cornell University, CS Dept., Ithaca, NY

In article <1993Jan22.173939.4872@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:

|> >every Jeeves book has one of these - an ugly scarf, a flashy sweater, a pipe...
|> 
|> purple socks, a banjolele...

bertie's mustache, his spiffy white mess jacket with the brass buttons,
his plus-fours, 

	hidee hidee hideee ho, sir
	aleta
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From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:26:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.142622.3584@cs.cornell.edu> aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi) writes:
>In article <Jan21.062413.87684@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
>
>|> Harold "Stinker" Pinker, Stephanie Byng, Aunt Dahlia get passing grades.  
>
>i was a bit disappointed in the current incarnations of `the basset', 
>aunt dahlia, and gussie (or his current affectations and lithp).  the

Especially Aunt Dahlia who is supposed to be a renowned hunts woman.

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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:19:07 EST
From: <SXC3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: An American who likes Wodehouse

Isn't it perfectly splendid we have our own net group now!  However, I have
noticed several instances of what I can only call gross aspersions on the
taste of the common or garden variety American.  There are at least five
of us (including myself) who not only read Wodehouse, but do so in public.
I have even tried to convert my roommate to the faith by making her watch the
recent Masterpiece Theatre orgy.  Others on the Net may be interested to know
that PBS (I don't _think_ it was Masterpiece Theatre, but my memory is fading)
did a substantial chunk of his short stories many moons ago.  Name of program
being "Wodehouse Playhouse".  I can be cheered in times of great trial by
recalling the saga of "Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo".

                     Sabrina Chase, tea-drinker

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Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:23:35 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


In article <1k1cm7INNt87@pollux.usc.edu>, 
brao@pollux.usc.edu (Bapa Rao) writes:

|> My first Wodehouse (and still my favorite) is "Psmith in the City". 
|> Anyone else read it?

Yes. "Leave it to Psmith," however, delivers more, IMO. 

A less known Psmith novel is "Psmith Journalist" in which Psmith takes over    
(ably aided by Mike Jackson) the running of a newspaper in New York City (while
its editor is away on vacation in Europe). Bold policy decisions about the rag's
future result in its departing from a conservative "family" magazine dwelling
on suburban domestics, to the exciting world of exposing crime. Psmith,
needless to say, is an "investigative reporter" of no mean calibre. 


-kannan

ps -

Psmith flirting with crime is a potent motif. The following advert for
employment from "Leave it to Psmith," for example, is a work of art. 

   
             L E A V E    I T    T O    PSMITH !
    
                   Psmith Will Help You
             
             Psmith  Is   Ready   For   Anything

                     DO   YOU   WANT

             Someone  To  Manage  Your  Affairs?
             Someone  To  Manage  Your  Business?
             Someone  To  Take The Dog For A Run?
             Someone  To  Assassinate Your Aunt?

                     PSMITH  WILL  DO  IT

                   CRIME  NOT  OBJECTED  TO

                 Whatever Job You Have To Offer
            (Provided It Has Nothing To Do With Fish)

                  LEAVE  IT  TO  PSMITH !

            Address Applications to `R. Psmith, Box 365'

                  LEAVE  IT  TO  PSMITH !

Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Subject: Re: Jeeves' Peeves
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:58:23 GMT

In article <C1HF4r.IwK@acsu.buffalo.edu> v128juxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (SCHUYJUANNAH) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.173939.4872@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes...
>>In article <AMATHUR.93Jan22110618@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu> amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes:
>>>shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
>> 
>
>an eighteenth century cow creamer, a policeman's hat.

Most authorities agree that it was Modern Dutch.

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From: dkf11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: The Creation of the Group
Reply-To: dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
Distribution: alt
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:02:13 GMT

I'm glad to see that this group got created (speaking as one who
advised the creators on the exact mechanism), and I think that it is
good that people can have exactly the groups they want (within
reason :).

I enjoy Wodehouse as well, but I do not have as much time to read them
as I would like, since all the books are at home. :( and there is a
vast number already there, so it is hard to find ones that i have not
already got.

Oh well....

Donal.
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From: krishnam@math.vt.edu (Ravi Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:32:11 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, VA 24061
In-reply-to: sl@wimsey.bc.ca's message of 23 Jan 93 07:07:40 GMT

In article <C1Ap4t.KJ@wimsey.bc.ca> sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne) writes:
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>  Here is my list of the Jeeves books with publishing dates when I
>  have them. The PBS series got me interested in trying to get the
      [stuff deleted]  
      

>  I suspect these are Jeeves also.

>   The Clicking of Cuthbert
>   Uncle Dynamite

Nope!,  
The first one is a collection of golf stories and the second one has
Uncle Fred, the Earl of Ickenham.

As far as I can remember "Ring for Jeeves" was the
only one that didn't have Bertie and Jeeves together. Are there others ?
together. 
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From: aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Terms for fans
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:29:33 GMT
Organization: Cornell University, CS Dept., Ithaca, NY

In article <RPG.93Jan22130249@clones.cs.tulane.edu>, rpg@cs.tulane.edu (Robert Goldman) writes:

|>    Why not just "Woodies" ?
|> 
|>    Seems to fall perfectly in line with "Berties" et al...
|> 
|>    Suze
|> 
|> Well, considering the alternative meaning of "Woodie" (hint, it's
|> synonymous with "stiffie"), I think this might not be the best
|> choice....

then again, it probably is... consider stephanie "stiffy" bing!

	aleta
From: foxde@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Deborah E Fox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 24 Jan 93 05:27:23 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In a previous article, sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) wrote:

> 2. Is there anyone around who agrees that Blandings and Psmith and
> many of PGW's other works are far better than the Bertie Wooster stories?
> (Probably not!)

I do!  And I'm certainly glad to find someone else who thinks the same way.
Wodehouse fans seem to be hard enough to come by as it is, let alone ones who
have heard of Blandings, Mr. Mulliner, Psmith et al.  Wodehouse was an 
excellent writer, and those who never discover his other sagas are missing out.

I nearly gave up on Wodehouse after exhausting the Jeeves short stories, 
because frankly I found the Jeeves and Bertie novels a bit much to take (it 
gets tiring to _always_ have to think down to Bertie's level).  However, I 
was given a collection of Wodehouse short stories (_The Most of P.G. 
Wodehouse_ - highly recommended) that included Ukridge stories, golf stories, 
Blandings Castle... I was hooked.

So here's hoping that other Wodehouse fans also see fit to expand their 
horizons!  You'll never regret it, I promise.   :)


- Deborah Fox
(foxde@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) 
and an original voter for the creation of this newsgroup