HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Older Wodehouse for Television
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:44:54 GMT
Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

[Refs to Wodehouse Playhouse, mid '70s]
In article 3BC@syscen.com, reidc@syscen.com (Reid Carson/Development) writes:
>  They starred John Alderton and Pauline Collins, though I believe the last
>batch only had Alderton - I have a vague recollection that they got divorced
>around this time.  The first stories were introduced by P. G. himself.
>
>  If there are any Wodehouse fans who haven't seen the series (I've seen
>them all several times) I highly recommend them.  All are at least
>entertaining, and several are quite hilarious.  (Of course, I'm a big
>fan of Collins and Alderton.)
>
WHERE did you see them?  Are they being shown somewhere?  Are they on
videotape??  If _anything_ belongs in a video library, that's it.  Esp.
since PG did the intros (I'd forgotten that detail, but I remember how
old he looked).

I'd dearly love to see them again.

--f2

-----------------------------
  "Fish.  That's his secret."

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From: ranjit@synopsys.com (Ranjit Padmanabhan)
Subject: Re: Older Wodehouse for Television
Keywords: n
Organization: Psynopsys, Inc.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:16:19 GMT

[among other things]

>And, btw, what do you _call_ Wodehouse fans?  Is there a term?  Any suggestions?

Pelhamsters?

Psmithereens?

As an aside, I've also found Tom Sharpe to be almost on par with Wodehouse,
in terms of chuckle generation, though he does cater to the somewhat prurient
sides of our natures with a tendency toward vulgarity.

Ranjit
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 09:12:10 CST
From: Cole Kendall <U48073@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves' Peeves
Distribution: alt
 <1993Jan22.173939.4872@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
 <1993Jan22.201638.8856@cs.cornell.edu>

In article <1993Jan22.201638.8856@cs.cornell.edu>, aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta
Ricciardi) says:
>
>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,
>
Don't forget the alpine hat that provided the nickname "Alpine Joe", the
famous thief.

Cole Kendall
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From: nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein)
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Theater on PBS
Organization: Amherst College
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Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:20:16 GMT

Rao Akella (rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu) wrote:
: 
: In article <Jan24.191908.27594@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
: > 
: > You mean Captain Biggar, who habitually looks rhinoceri in their eye, while
: > strolling through their backyard as it were, and makes them wilt.
: 
: If you actually mean Capt. Cuthbert Gervase Brabazon-Biggar, then you probably
: know the answer to this:
: 	Who's bigger?  Mister Biggar or Master Biggar?
: Master Biggar, because he's a little Biggar.
: 
: :-)
: 
: In a similar vein, anyone remember the context of "the Major is a miner and the
: minor is a Major?"  I seem to remember it's either Galahad or Fred, Lord
: Ickenham, trying to put a fast one over somebody...one of the classics.

And yet people dare to compare trash like "Who promoted Major Major?" to this
fine word-origami of the Master...
						- Neil Bernstein
						Struggling Classics Major
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From: ss8f@csissun5.ee.Virginia.EDU (Sanjay Srinivasan)
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Reply-To: ss8f@csissun5.ee.Virginia.EDU (Sanjay Srinivasan)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:25:43 GMT

Bertie's middle name: Wilberforce

Jeeves' first name: I'd really like to know that. I don't think he has one

Sanjay
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From: migod@turing.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey)
Subject: Wodehours and WWII
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:34:00 GMT



The whole story behind the WW2 broadcasts (including transcrips) made in 
occupied France can be found in "The Penguin Wodehouse Companion" (title 
may be slightly off) as edited by Richard Usborne.  Should be easy to 
find if you can get Penguins.

-- 
Mike Godfrey 				Motto of the "new" Canada:
Dept of Comp Sci, UofT			    E pluribus complures.
migod@turing.toronto.edu		    Out of many, several.
From: ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Wodehouse translation
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:34:29 GMT
Reply-To: ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


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.

Nigel Titley

Email: NTitley@axion.bt.co.uk
Snail: British Telecom Research labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
"Well, I'm disenchanted too. We're all disenchanted." (James Thurber)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: pholland@iastate.edu (Paul J Hollander)
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:31:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.140524.19358@cs.cornell.edu> aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi) writes:
>In article <Jan22.050258.32415@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
>
>|> (More trivia : (easy) - Bertie's middle name?
>
>	wilberforce?
>|> And how did he get it?           
>	dunno

His parents gave it to him.  8^)

Wasn't there a 19th or early 20th century British prime minister or foreign 
secretary named Wilberforce?

Paul Hollander    pholland@iastate.edu
Behold the tortoise: he makes no progress unless he sticks his neck out.
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From: rlharrin@unix.amherst.edu (Rich Harrington)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:05:39 GMT

   Well, if I had been at all clever, I would have read all the other 
postings, and realized that Emsworth's secretary-nemesis was the Efficient
Baxter.  I guess my memory is getting more and more like my hero Clarence's
every day... 

--
           Rich Harrington -- Probably not related to Othella
rlharrington@amherst.edu	   "Whatever happened to the Hessians, anyway?
rlharrin@unix.amherst.edu	       You never see them around."
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From: sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar)
Subject: Re: Who is ......
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:56:47 GMT

In article <kencham.728016549@giga> kencham@giga.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote) writes:
>Who is *much fanfare*
>
>	Algernon Aubrey Little

Bingo Little Jr. He's the star of a story in which Bingo has a bet
with ?? that his kid is uglier than ??'s. A passing policeman is called
upon to judge the affair, and naturally, Bingo loses. (The policeman adds
that his tyke would beat both contenstants hands down.) What does he lose?
Was it some money that he had intended to deposit in the bank? Complications
ensue, since Bingo has promised Rosie M. Little nee Banks that he will
quit gambling.

What's the name of the story? Which book is it in? (Eggs, Beans and Crumpets?)

Owzzat?

Sachin
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Postulates on Wodehouse
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:34:32 GMT


In article <30294@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, sham@cs.arizona.edu (Shamim Zvonko Mohamed) writes:
> 
> Many years ago, I got this from some newsgroup on the net. The name of the
> author seems to be missing; if you recognise this, please let me know!
> 
>                   Suspension of Disbelief
>
> [thirty postulates deleted]

It's simply Ch. 1 (verbatim) of Richard Usborne's "The Penguin Wodehouse
Companion," described by the Sunday Telegraph as 'An addict's guide.'  The
chapter is sub-titled "Thirty postulates for relaxed reading of P.G.
Wodehouse".

BTW, if you really consider yourself a self-respecting Wodehouse addict, this
book is a must.  It not only gives you a half- to full-page descriptions of
every single book PGW ever wrote, but also character sketches and analysis of
the major characters, and the five Berlin broadcasts.  Simply indispensable. 
And only US$8 besides.

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>

Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:11:52 GMT
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In article <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu>
 sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) writes:

>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?

Aha.... this sounds like a topic that can keep us busy for at least a
few months.  :-)

My opinion:  There are great standouts in all the Wodehouse genres, but
the Jeeves stories are, in my opinion, the most consistently good.

Some of my favorite non-Bertie/Jeeves tales are:

	The Clicking of Cuthbert (a Golf story)
	Pig-hoo-ey (Blandings)

One of my  all-time favorite Jeeves/Bertie stories is "Jeeves and the Old
School Chum;"  PGW is great in misogynistic mode.  :-)

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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From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: More Quotes
Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:01:13 GMT
Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Lord Tidmouth in "Good Morning, Bill" (the play; there is a novel "Doctor
Sally" based on it, or the other way round):

  I read an interesting thing the other day.  It said the sardine's worst
enemy was the halibut, and I give you my word that until I read it I didn't
know the sardine *had* an enemy.  And I don't mind telling you my opinion
of the halibut has gone down considerably.  Very considerably.  Fancy
anything wanting to bully a sardine.



Bertie explains a not-so-hypothetical situation in "Jeeves And The Greasy
Bird":

[Jeeves:]  "You would prefer to term the protagonists A and B."
[Bertie:]  "Or North and South?"
  "A and B is more customary, sir."
  "Just as you say.  Well, A is male, B is female.  You follow me so far?"
  "You have been lucidity itself, sir."
[..]
  "Now until recently B was engaged to - "
  "Shall we call him C, sir?"
  "Caesar's as good a name as any, I suppose."


BTW, who of you saw the one and only Wodehouse movie "A Damsel In Distress"
starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, and George Burns?

--
thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
Philosophy is the art of drawing conclusions from definitions that have been
chosen so that one can draw the conclusions one would like to get.
It immediately follows that philosophy is silly.
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From: sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar)
Subject: Re: More trivia.
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:24:45 GMT

In article <C1FHA3.KpF@news2.cis.umn.edu> rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
>
>What's the name of the only PGW short story to be narrated by a dog?
>
>Hint: It's the last story in "A Wodehouse Bestiary" (ed: D.R. Bensen).

"The Mixer," appearing in "The Man With Two Left Feet" (?)

Sachin


Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: rxr00@cas.org ()
Subject: Duke of Dunstable and others
Reply-To: rxr00@cas.org
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:44:01 GMT


        Hi Wodehousemates:
        
        I notice that in all the past discussions my "favorite " characters 
        have not been mentioned. I allude to the Duke of Dunstable and 
        Percy Pilbeam.
        
        Dunstable has the habit of imposing himself on Lord Emsworth's hospitality.
        He is frequently an unwelcome  guest at Blandings and usually ends up turning
        the place upside down. Lady Constance (am I right??) looks favorably on him
        so he gets away with his antics.
        
        Percy Pilbeam, with his marcelled hair, brilliantine and all, is a despicable
        character who again weasels his way into households and tries to get his hands 
        on some valuable or other. He ultimately is foiled, but until then it is laugh
        after laugh.
        
        It is some time since I read any book with Pilbeam in it. Does anybody remember
        any titles?
        
        Ram Ravi
From: udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:11:55 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Rice University

In article <1993Jan26.211623.9728@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, gmclucki@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gemma McLuckie) writes:
|> In article <karnik.727635170@myria> karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes
|> >
|> >|> > some stuff deleted

|> The actor who plays Bertie (sorry, I'm horrible at names) plays the doctor on 
|> the new Star Trek: Deep Space Nine series.

Being an avid fan of PGW and Star Trek, I must tell you that
Bertie on Masterpiece T was played by Hugh Laurie.
The Doctor (Dr Julian Bashir, graduated second from starfleet academy)
on the Star Trek DS9 is played by Siddiq El Fadil

> He's the comic relief, I think. 

He is certainly very comic.

Pip pip and all that sort of thing.
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From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith)
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:25:40 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

In article <1993Jan22.142543.27127@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ss8f@csissun5.ee.Virginia.EDU (Sanjay Srinivasan) writes:
>
>Jeeves' first name: I'd really like to know that. I don't think he has one
>
Jeeves' first name is Jeeves.  Jeeves' last name is the mystery.


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From: chris@hfglobe.intel.com (Chris Houghton)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse query
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:24:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.232532.10713@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
>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

The subject comes up in "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves" when Madeline has
forced Gussy to become a vegetarian.  She thinks the setting sun looks
like something she'ld think of (steady there, working from memory)
but all Gussy can see is aslice of beef.

Chris H.


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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Extracts 
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:10:34 GMT


In article <Jan22.221230.76813@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
> 
> Incidentally, for die-hard Bertie and Jeeves fans, who was Bertie's valet
> before he hired Jeeves?

Bingley, wasn't it?

> And who did Jeeves work for before Bertie? 

Lord Worplesdon?

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>

Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Subject: Name for Wodehouse addicts;  was: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:00:24 GMT
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In article <22JAN199309452701@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> offenberg@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joel Offenberg) writes:
>In article <AMATHUR.93Jan21120006@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu>, amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes...
>>Hi fellow Wodehouseians (Only proposed term so far)
>
>I think I prefer Wodehousemates :)

How about "Wodeheads"?

	-P.
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From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
Subject: Re: American Wodehouse fans (was Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Maste
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In article <1993Jan21.234226.8669@netcom.com> rallen@netcom.com (Robert W
 Allen) writes:
>karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
>
>>BTW, any American fans of Wodehouse out there?? I was a little surprise
 to
>>find that whenever I tried to bring up the subject of P.G.W. in America

>>company, the response I got was, "Wodehouse? Never heard of him!".....
>
>I've been a Wodehouse fan since the age of 14. Can't remember how I firs

>came to pick up one of his books, but I read everything of his that my
>local library had to offer. Unfortunately, it is indeed rare for me to
>encounter another American Wodehouse fan. Perhaps this group will bring
>them out of hiding.
>--Rob Allen
>rallen@netcom.com


My father is a very big Wodehouse fan--I'm sure he'd absolutely
LOVE this newsgroup.  It's too bad that he'll probably never get
to see it...  *snif*

--
Chris Meadows  | Robotech/RIFTS/Palladium fanfic author/editor                  
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From: rao@cis.ohio-state.edu (roshan m rao)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Question
Date: 25 Jan 1993 16:45:39 -0500
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I was wondering how many sisters, Lord Emsworth has to make his life miserable.
My list:
    Julia, Constance, Dora, Hermione.

Anyone care to add more aunts ?

Roshan
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From: udaya@octavius.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse translation
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:16:25 GMT

In article <C1H05D.6J3@unix.amherst.edu>, nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein) writes:
|> First, a question: does anyone know of any Wodehouse translations? 

Yes. I once bought a German Translation of Aunts aren't Gentlemen.
Unfortunately, I know no German at all. So I have not had a
chance to find out how good the translation is.
From: jwh3g@amazon.evsc.Virginia.EDU (Julia Hayden)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Psmith
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:01:32 GMT
Followup-To: Jhayden@smith.smith.edu
Organization: University of Virginia

In article <1993Jan26.171347@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov> xrjdm@calvin.gsfc.nasa.gov  writes:
> In article <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu> sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) writes:
>>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?
>I am a Psmith fan; I try to make sure I reread both _Leave It to Psmith_ and
>_Psmith Journalist_ at least once per year... I think it's time. Psmith was
>mentioned in passing in an 8th-grade English book, and it took me a dog's
>years to find it in print. Highly, highly recommended. LItP is a darn good
>mystery, too, by the way.
>
> --- Joe M.
>
My Psmith books are among the few books i lug to and from college...I would 
have to say that _Leave it to Psmith_ is perhaps my favorite Wodehouse because
not only do you get Psmith, you get Blandings as well. Whatta deal. 
--J

 oh! the actor who played Wooster (from a few posts ago) is Hugh Laurie.


-- 
Julia Hayden<@>Jhayden@smith.smith.edu<@>Deep Hurting!Deep Hurting!<@>DWFL!
 An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a
 stranger to one of your parents.--Your mother will never see you again if you 
 do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
From: ranarayanan@apollo.davidson.edu
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Organization: Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:01:46 GMT
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>|> (More trivia : (easy) - Bertie's middle name?
>
>	wilberforce?
>|> And how did he get it?           
>	dunno

	His father plonked his shirt on a horse called Wilberforce (which
either won by a short head or sat down in the middle of the race, I can't
remember ....) a couple of days before Bertie was born, thus the middle
name..... (that's in Much Obliged Jeeves )

Ranjit
From: ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Astounding* observations on this newsgroup:
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:30:00 GMT
Organization: SUNY at Buffalo
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In article <1993Jan26.203122.1863@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) comments on 

>2.  The fact that such a high fraction of the readership, or at least 
>    the "postership," seems to be of East Indian origin -- though this 
>    makes sense, on reflection;

This IS interesting, but HOW does it make sense?

--Ax
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From: karuzis@wccf.mit.edu (GLENN HOLM)
Subject: Re: Viva Wodehouse
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
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In article <1993Jan21.234101.12529@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, nsridhar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Natarajan Sridhar) writes...
>In article <1993Jan21.163124.3251@news.cs.indiana.edu> "rajesh kamath" <rkamath@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>>
>>
>>Any more, folks?
> 
"They say that Providence looks out for the chumps of this world
and, personally, I'm all for it."
      B.W.Wooster
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|Glenn Holm                         Internet:karuzis@wccf.mit.edu|
|M.I.T Dept. of Brain + Cog. Sci.   This VAX doesn't do NeXTmail |
|Cambridge, MA 02139       "Real Neuroscientists don't do gels!" |
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